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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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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. AMTEAR_180605_001.JPG: Trail of Tears A Story of Cherokee Removal
2. AMTEAR_180605_006.JPG: Trail of Tears A Story of Cherokee Removal
3. AMTEAR_180605_009.JPG: 1540 Contact
4. AMTEAR_180605_012.JPG: 1540 Contact
5. AMTEAR_180605_015.JPG: 1721 First Treaty with England
6. AMTEAR_180605_019.JPG: 1721 First Treaty with England
7. AMTEAR_180605_022.JPG: 1830 Indian Removal Act
8. AMTEAR_180605_025.JPG: 1830 Indian Removal Act
9. AMTEAR_180605_027.JPG: 1835 Treaty of New Echota
10. AMTEAR_180605_030.JPG: 1835 Treaty of New Echota
11. AMTEAR_180605_034.JPG: 1836 Protest Petition
12. AMTEAR_180605_037.JPG: 1836 Protest Petition
13. AMTEAR_180605_041.JPG: 1838 Forced Removal
14. AMTEAR_180605_044.JPG: 1838 Forced Removal
15. AMTEAR_180605_046.JPG: 1838 Petition to General Scott
16. AMTEAR_180605_049.JPG: 1838 Petition to General Scott
17. AMTEAR_180605_056.JPG: 1839 Act of Union Passed
18. AMTEAR_180605_060.JPG: 1839 Act of Union Passed
19. AMTEAR_180605_064.JPG: 1898 The Curtis Act
20. AMTEAR_180605_067.JPG: 1898 The Curtis Act
21. AMTEAR_180605_071.JPG: 2018 Cherokee Nation
22. AMTEAR_180605_073.JPG: 2018 Cherokee Nation
23. AMTEAR_180605_081.JPG: Introduction to Cherokee People
24. AMTEAR_180605_084.JPG: Pre-Contact Lifestyle
25. AMTEAR_180605_088.JPG: European Contact
26. AMTEAR_180605_102.JPG: Sovereign Relationships
27. AMTEAR_180605_106.JPG: Worcester v. Georgia
28. AMTEAR_180605_109.JPG: Indian Removal Act
29. AMTEAR_180605_115.JPG: John Ridge, 1837
30. AMTEAR_180605_117.JPG: Major Ridge, 1837
31. AMTEAR_180605_120.JPG: Stand Waitie (detail)
32. AMTEAR_180605_123.JPG: Elias Boudinot (detail)
33. AMTEAR_180605_131.JPG: Treaty of New Echota
34. AMTEAR_180605_141.JPG: 1836 Protest Petition
35. AMTEAR_180605_148.JPG: Removal
36. AMTEAR_180605_156.JPG: Forced Removal
37. 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.
38. 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.
39. AMTEAR_180605_173.JPG: Tribal Self Removal
40. AMTEAR_180605_183.JPG: The Trail of Tears
41. AMTEAR_180605_209.JPG: Cherokee Female Seminary
42. AMTEAR_180605_215.JPG: Sequoyah's Gift, 2006 by Daniel HorseChief
43. AMTEAR_180605_221.JPG: International Indian Council (Held at Tallequah, Indian Territory, in 1843) by John Mix Stanley
44. AMTEAR_180605_229.JPG: Perseverance and Determination
45. AMTEAR_180605_235.JPG: Proposed State of Sequoyah
46. AMTEAR_180605_241.JPG: Continued Hardships
47. AMTEAR_180605_248.JPG: Indian Healthy Service Signing, 2016
48. AMTEAR_180605_255.JPG: Cherokee Nation Today
49. AMTEAR_180605_264.JPG: Reflections
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