DC -- Natl Museum of the American Indian -- Exhibit: Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal:
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Description of Pictures: Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal
April 12, 2018 – January 2019
This powerful exhibition takes a deeper look at Indian removal from the Cherokee perspective. How did it happen? Who made the decisions? What was the human cost? Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal dispels misconceptions about the Trail of Tears and provides a realistic look at the devastating cost of greed and oppression.
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AMTEAR_180605_001.JPG: Trail of Tears
A Story of Cherokee Removal
AMTEAR_180605_006.JPG: Trail of Tears
A Story of Cherokee Removal
AMTEAR_180605_009.JPG: 1540
Contact
AMTEAR_180605_012.JPG: 1540
Contact
AMTEAR_180605_015.JPG: 1721
First Treaty with England
AMTEAR_180605_019.JPG: 1721
First Treaty with England
AMTEAR_180605_022.JPG: 1830
Indian Removal Act
AMTEAR_180605_025.JPG: 1830
Indian Removal Act
AMTEAR_180605_027.JPG: 1835
Treaty of New Echota
AMTEAR_180605_030.JPG: 1835
Treaty of New Echota
AMTEAR_180605_034.JPG: 1836
Protest Petition
AMTEAR_180605_037.JPG: 1836
Protest Petition
AMTEAR_180605_041.JPG: 1838
Forced Removal
AMTEAR_180605_044.JPG: 1838
Forced Removal
AMTEAR_180605_046.JPG: 1838
Petition to General Scott
AMTEAR_180605_049.JPG: 1838
Petition to General Scott
AMTEAR_180605_056.JPG: 1839
Act of Union Passed
AMTEAR_180605_060.JPG: 1839
Act of Union Passed
AMTEAR_180605_064.JPG: 1898
The Curtis Act
AMTEAR_180605_067.JPG: 1898
The Curtis Act
AMTEAR_180605_071.JPG: 2018
Cherokee Nation
AMTEAR_180605_073.JPG: 2018
Cherokee Nation
AMTEAR_180605_081.JPG: Introduction to Cherokee People
AMTEAR_180605_084.JPG: Pre-Contact
Lifestyle
AMTEAR_180605_088.JPG: European Contact
AMTEAR_180605_102.JPG: Sovereign Relationships
AMTEAR_180605_106.JPG: Worcester v. Georgia
AMTEAR_180605_109.JPG: Indian Removal Act
AMTEAR_180605_115.JPG: John Ridge, 1837
AMTEAR_180605_117.JPG: Major Ridge, 1837
AMTEAR_180605_120.JPG: Stand Waitie (detail)
AMTEAR_180605_123.JPG: Elias Boudinot (detail)
AMTEAR_180605_131.JPG: Treaty of New Echota
AMTEAR_180605_141.JPG: 1836 Protest Petition
AMTEAR_180605_148.JPG: Removal
AMTEAR_180605_156.JPG: Forced Removal
AMTEAR_180605_160.JPG: "Trail of Tears" Origin
The phrase "trail of tears" originated in 1832 when a Choctaw chief was interviewed by the Arkansas Gazette newspaper about his tribe's removal journey. He described it as "a trail of tears and death." This expression became the description for all removals of southeastern Native tribes and began to be most popularly used in regards to the 1838 Cherokee removal.
AMTEAR_180605_164.JPG: 1836 Petition
This petition was created by Cherokee Nation in 1836 as a rebuttal to the Treaty of New Echota. It was signed by more than 2,000 Cherokees, including Principal Chief John Ross.
AMTEAR_180605_173.JPG: Tribal Self Removal
AMTEAR_180605_183.JPG: The Trail of Tears
AMTEAR_180605_209.JPG: Cherokee Female Seminary
AMTEAR_180605_215.JPG: Sequoyah's Gift, 2006
by Daniel HorseChief
AMTEAR_180605_221.JPG: International Indian Council (Held at Tallequah, Indian Territory, in 1843)
by John Mix Stanley
AMTEAR_180605_229.JPG: Perseverance and Determination
AMTEAR_180605_235.JPG: Proposed State of Sequoyah
AMTEAR_180605_241.JPG: Continued Hardships
AMTEAR_180605_248.JPG: Indian Healthy Service Signing, 2016
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Trips this year:
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my 13th consecutive trip to San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles).
Number of photos taken this year: about 535,000.
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