Trail Of Tears
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TRAIL of tears
By Nora
Date:1838-1839.
Description:As Part of the Indian Removal act by Andrew Jackson the Cherokee were forced to give up their land and migrate 2,200 miles to Oklahoma.
THE BEGINNING
I AM PLAYING WITH MY FRIENDS WHEN WHITE MEN IN UNIFORMS RIDE UP TO OUR HOME.
LEAVING
MY MOTHER AND I ARE TAKEN BY SEVERAL MEN TO WHERE THEIR HORSES ARE AND HELD THEIR AT GUN POINT.
TRAPPED
THEY LEAD US UP TO A STOCKADE. THEY HERD US INTO THIS PEN LIKE WE ARE CATTLE.
CONFUSION
"YOUR FATHER DIED LAST NIGHT, THEY TELL ME. MY MOTHER AND MY FATHER'S CLAN MEMBERS ARE CRYING BUT I DI NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS MEANS.
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THE JOURNEY
THE SOLDIERS TELL US WE ARE TO FOLLOW THEM. WE ARE LED OUT OF THE STOCKADE.
COLD
THE COLD SEEPS THROUGH MY CLOTHES. I WISH I HAD A BLANKET.
BEING WATCHED
AS WE WALK PAST WHITE TOWNS, THE WHITES COME OUT TO WATCH US PASS.
Death
When I went to sleep last night, my mother was hot and coughing worse than usual. When I woke up she was COLD.
When
