BGuthrie Photos: 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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1. AMINTT_190529_005.JPG: Trail of Tears A Story of Cherokee Removal The soldiers came and took us from our home. They first surrounded our house and they took the mare while we were at work in the fields and they drove us out of doors and did not permit us to take anything with us, not even a second change of clothes. -- Ooloo-Cha, widow of Sweet Water
2. AMINTT_190529_008.JPG: Cherokee Historical Timeline
3. AMINTT_190529_012.JPG: Introduction to Cherokee People
4. AMINTT_190529_017.JPG: Pre-Contact Lifestyle
5. AMINTT_190529_021.JPG: European Contact
6. AMINTT_190529_029.JPG: Sovereign Relationships
7. AMINTT_190529_037.JPG: Indian Removal Act
8. AMINTT_190529_045.JPG: Treaty of New Echota
9. AMINTT_190529_053.JPG: 1836 Protest Petition
10. AMINTT_190529_059.JPG: Removal
11. AMINTT_190529_065.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.
12. AMINTT_190529_068.JPG: Forced Removal
13. AMINTT_190529_074.JPG: The Trail of Tears In 1987, about 2,200 miles of trails were authorized by federal law to mark the removal of 17 detachments of Cherokee people. The routes are now part of a National Park Service program. Today tourists can visit removal sites along the designated trails, learning about the history of each site and the detachments that traveled through it.
14. AMINTT_190529_078.JPG: General Winfield Scott
15. AMINTT_190529_081.JPG: Annie Fields Ballard
16. AMINTT_190529_083.JPG: Tribal Self Removal
17. AMINTT_190529_087.JPG: Petition to General Scott by the Cherokee Nation, June 11, 1838
18. AMINTT_190529_091.JPG: "If it be painful to you Sir to contemplate this work, what must be the feelings of the Cherokees who are to be the subject of the disaster and ruin which must ensue?" -- Petition to General Scott by Cherokee Nation, June 11, 1838
19. AMINTT_190529_094.JPG: Perseverance and Determination
20. AMINTT_190529_097.JPG: Sequoyah's Gift, 2006
21. AMINTT_190529_100.JPG: Cherokee Female Seminary The Cherokee Female Seminary was built in Park Hill, Indian Territory, in 1851 as a place for higher education among Cherokee women. After removal, the Cherokee government established the school, as well as a school for men, for the betterment of its people.
22. AMINTT_190529_104.JPG: International Indian Council (Held as Tallequah, Indian Territory, in 1843) Held in 1843 at Tahlequah, Cherokee Nation's capital city in Indian Territory, the International Indian Council was reported at the time to be the largest-ever gathering of Native American tribes assembled to revive ancient alliances.
23. AMINTT_190529_113.JPG: Continued Hardships
24. AMINTT_190529_118.JPG: Proposed State of Sequoyah
25. AMINTT_190529_124.JPG: Cherokee Nation Today
26. AMINTT_190529_133.JPG: Reflections from Cherokee People
27. AMINTT_190529_142.JPG: The soldiers came and took us from our home. They first surrounded our house and they took the mare while we were at work in the fields and they drove us out of doors and did not permit us to take anything us, not even a second change of clothes. -- Ooloo-Cha, widow of Sweet Water
28. AMINTT_190529_146.JPG: Reflections from American People
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