The Trail of Tears: They Knew It Was Wrong
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- The Trail of Tears shouldn't have happened. People at the time knew that it was wrong, that it was illegal, and that it was unconstitutional, but they did it anyway. Historian Amy Sturgis explains why the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation to "Indian Territory" (modern-day Oklahoma) was wrong on both moral and legal grounds. How can the Trail of Tears provide lessons to us today? We can't look aside and ignore the Trail of Tears as an example of something that was just part of the mid-19th century mindset. It is a story about how a group that had power gained at the expense of a minority unable to defend itself. The Trail of Tears set precedents we can only hope to avoid repeating.
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I love how in school we are taught how amazing America is then once you gain more knowledge you learn how fucked up America is.
Yessssss.disappointing isn't it..when you don't speak the truth.. consequences happen..
They taught this in my 8th grade American History class.
I DON'T
Facts
Martha belle
They’ve been telling that same LIE since they invented Jesus.
It was genocide. A crime against humanity. This was deliberate, rob their land and then banish them to reservations. How cruel and inhumane. Not only was their land taken, they also lost their culture, their religion, their language, their everything. And no one has paid for this atrocity nor has anyone been held accountable nor has the truth been told.
I know. That was so evil making those Indians walk to a reservation.
Stating the truth would prevent its' reduction to myth, and is still better than denial, even if it's impossible to teach the willfully ignorant it's an attempt towards positive change.
Yep and when Attila the Hun rampaged through China and everywhere else no one thought anything about it at the time! When Roman army’s conquered half the world! When Greece conquered half of the Middle East and yada yada yada! The best though is our own wonderful government sticking their noses in Middle East, Vietnam,Korea,and all you are concerned about is something that we had nothing to do with! War needs to stop now and we need to concentrate on now not something that happened years ago!
Also I read about all that they did and they didn’t try to hide it!
I agree with you.
To bad we can't do that to white people today especially the racist ones.
Idk y the whites dislike POC back then .
We did not do anything wrong.
Lucky i speak my Native Tongue.
Thank you, as an 70 year old African American, I never knew about The Trail of Tears, so glad I found your channel. It's sad and disturbing how cruel man can be toward others not like him.. History as taught in schools, avoid the truth and hide the evil done by greed. My heart aches because there is still corruption, genocide and hatred going on today.
The Cherokee brought their slaves in the trail of tears. So yes people in general where pretty crazy at this time in history
So they justify their theft
Your not african amercian this happened to YOU .
@@ministerpopilyo that’s nonsense stfu
@@ministerpopilyo stop talkin
"I have fought through civil war and have seen men shot to pieces and slaughtered by the thousands, but the Cherokees removal was the cruelest work i ever knew" young army, from the book The enduring vision.
No it wasn't they did the Navajo people even worser & called it the long walk they were forced off they lands in the south & were copper colored now they in new Mexico looking like Filipino people the lie's they tell
@Dustin Heath WOW, I didn't know the Apache were from Mexico I can see it tho & I always thought Apache Pueblo's & Navajo had some kinda kinship
@Dustin Heath okay
I say no.
Stop your lies you haven't seen anything you coward
This woman communicated this piece of history so clearly, this short video was so well put together
This reminds me of the 21,000+ native Hawaiians that petitioned in 1897 against the annexation the Hawaii to the US, and went largely ignored by the US because US business interests were all that mattered.
Not the same. The US didn't force march the native Hawaiian population to an unfamiliar land and cause the death of a quarter of their population.
This behavior continues till this day.
Yes it does
This is very true. History simply repeats itself.
@@Niccole-oq8wo Yes, it's called gentrification.
Yeah it's just carried out by Dues now and much more ruthlessly
Whatcha gonna do about it
This whole nation is drenched in BLOOD
The human race is. The earth is. Why?
@@justbreakingballs That doesnt justify anything it was wrong!!
Devona nothings right or wrong.
The whole Earth is there’s no such thing as a native person there’s always been genocide since the dawn of time.
@@ifloridawarriorcatfan9918 it doesn't change or justify the fact that America has a very vile, evil history
The Trail of Tears; AKA The first American Gentrification and annihilation.
LL Kun it wasn't the first and unfortunately it won't be the last!
As a Black man the History of the brutality towards the natives people hurts me deep down knowing that this was not just a Black people thing they committed atrocities towards a lot of people,i mean even in European history they did it to the Picts the Gelts the Goths Vandels these people were not savage they refused Roman domination so lets think about that
John Wayne as Balck man you do realize the Native American did the same to our ancestors
@@justtruth5855 No that isn't true at all
Blind Mice yes it is true, people are waking as more information is coming to light. a link to her th-cam.com/video/7JEAMzJDyZs/w-d-xo.html
The horrific tale of how my people were murdered and taken from their land. Honestly one of the best videos I’ve watched in a while, being a Georgian and a Cherokee native this is accurately told. My grandmother told me stories of what she saw and what my great grandparents faced.
Just don't forget United States got rich off of slaves
@@terrypatterson2822 💯
They have been doing this all around the word for centuries 😭
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@TCBTT THAT'S Why BIG MAMA Earth is CLEANSING Herself!!
All races did this . One tribe would go to war with another tribe . Dominate them , take their women, take slaves and kill off the rest .they would also take their land . All tribe’s did this so don’t act like you’re all victim’s . We where just better at it .
Exactly!!!!!! Using the wealth of ancient kings and their black magic to do so!
@TCBTT Only God can change mens hearts
My great great grandfather adopted a young Cherokee boy about 2 or 3 wondering lost on the trail of tears in Kentucky they named him Moses . He married and had my grandma I wish I could of met my great grandfather . I'm proud of my native American heritage.
So am I
Me too.
Me too, my great great grandmother was an infant on The Long Walk, the only one of five siblings to survive it
My great great grandmother was born in a teepee in Kansas. That's as far as I know.
This is the story of my ancestors ... which for most of my life, I was unaware because I was not raised by Native Americans. The same excuse for carrying out an injustice has been used for thousands of years to deny people their rights. When will we ever learn ...?
@@penny8579 The Trail of Tears was so cruel that some of those who were forcing the Native people to move off their land went as far as to give them Smallpox infected blankets! I could not believe that so I researched it further. It was true. And never mentioned even in history books that detailed the Trail of Tears. I learned about this from a Native American elder I met one time. It was years before I was convinced it was true because I simply could not believe Americans would do something that unimaginably cruel! I had a similar education on slavery from Black friends who's recent ancestors had been inslaved. Stories of sexual cruelty in the form of castration, etc. Ripping families apart. Punishing and intimidating the slaves by using others as an "example" in front of them to keep "control". Thanks God THAT institution is gone! Unfortunately ... racism in all it's ugliness is still very much alive and well :( :(
This nation was founded on blood-people sacrificed for being “different”. The Native American were people that had made their own system of living AND knew AND respected the land.
What the U.S. government did to all the Natives of the land, not only is it atrocious, unconstitutional and murderous, but a lesson for us all to know what they’re really about.
Indigenous peoples were the original environmentalists. And now look at what’s happening. Climate change, global warming, scarce resources, food famine, droughts, ecological declines, all for the sake of capitalism. To save the planet, we must bring back that indigenous mindset to be aware and respectful of others and of the land.
Quite true. And look at what European people have done to the land, and the Earth. Chief Seattle knew this 100 years ago. He predicted they would "choke in their own waste". Time to heal the land and respect it. It is our Mother, and source of life.
Chief Seattle said nothing of the kind.
Every empire and rulers have been doing this to others it's not a new thing
Every nation in the world was found on conflict, war, and blood. Give me a break
My mother and father both of Cherokee ancestry told me that Cherokees refused to carry a $20 bill because of the image of the "Indian Hater" Andrew Jackson.
Is it true Andrew Jackson smashed children's heads against Stone and feed the remains to dogs they hung my ancestors from 🌲 castrated them and set them on 🔥 also they feed our children to alligators they placed bets on who would live the longest after cutting the child from the womb white America you have a debt to pay
@@perrylockejr7468 This is too terrible to even contemplate!😞😞
@@perrylockejr7468 That`s much worst than my imagination, I heard that Columbus did these things but I thought the colonialist in America were different.
@@perrylockejr7468 Remember this scripture.
Psalms 137:7-9
7- Remember oh Lord the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said rase it , rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8-Oh daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewarded thee as thou hast served us.
9- Happy shall he be , that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
@@perrylockejr7468 they did this to the aboriginal Americans and the children and women of the transatlantic slaves. The Hebrew people.
I remember "learning" about this is school. They made it sound like it was a good thing and the indians agreed. Another LIE taught in school. It wasn't until I was an adult that I learned the truth of the story. Makes me cry every time. It's just not right.
Growing up watching westerns on tv, ( I'm 70 years old) "Indians" were always portrayed as savages, the bad guys. Those movies really had viewers believing this lie, Custards last Stand portrayed him as a heroes and Jeronimo was portrayed as a bad guy. The real truth was twisted and buried under lies.
@Scott's Precious Little Account public school in the US in the 60's
I found out my great great grandma was forced during the trail of tears. She told my aunt she was left in Alabama bc she was sick. Its horrible knowing what she and many others went though
Blackfoot Cherokee here and I'm black but I even know the native tongue and I know how to write, my mom taught me.
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My family are the same ...never bought that African American story.
@@daphneytennard3267 you are really indian,science tells us all come from black
@Derrick Culler stop it lol
@Derrick Culler
Hebrew-Israelites, aren't ancestors of Africa, and it has been proven,
by DNA. Africans, have known this and can attest to it. Ask the Ethi-
opians . Google: African- Americans, are not Africans, they are the
true Hebew-Israelites. Google: Pastor Dana Stevens, he keeps it
simple, so all can understand.
Everywhere they've gone to they done the same thing and expecting you to forget their past like there present make much difference ah aah!!
It is the past and l don't think of it at all. Before my time.
Yes and people are trying to destroy history out of site out of mind thing . Those that choose to ignore history are bound to repeat it .
@@mchillbilly1956 l think President Andrew Jackson did the right thing, he wanted the Country to grow, if the Indians had left the Settlers alone, they would of been no reason to remove the lndians.
@@leefrancis4565 I have to disagree , Andrew Jackson was filled with hatred , not just for indians , blacks and any white people that didn't think like he did , if he had his way our population would be a third of what it is today and yes he was a good general and a bad president . Because of the hate in his heart and his greed
@@mchillbilly1956 You have your opinion, and l have mine.
People use to laugh when I said my grandmother, on both sides were so called Indians, one Blackfoot, one Choctaw. All praises.
Your not alone and I finally decided to investigate because I knew my grandma wasn't no liar..That's when I finally woke up and decided I wouldn't get no rest until I found the truth
@Derrick Culler yeah Derrick, not omitting that, I'm am proud of both, the point is that you were not allowed to claim that part, because that would mean owing you, the so called African American, we are from the Continent of Africa, which is not even the name of the Continent, and we're not African, and my nobility, is based on what yah says I am, and who I am, All praises to the Most High.
@Derrick Culler dna don't tell you anything. You have to do a geanology research. We aren't Africans. The Africans were taken from here and south America to Africa.
@Derrick Culler maybe you are but it sounds like you still believe the white man's history! His story, I'll continue to believe what I do and you do the same, it's fine.
ke ke you believing the white mans history , who said the Asians crossed over the pacific ? The whites
It's funny that she keeps referring to white people as Americans, when they were foreigners. The indigenous people here first are Americans not them colonizers!!
@Derrick Culler How can you found something when it was already other people there 😕
It's all good brother
@lori jallissa springberg4 the difference between me and you is that I do research and the believe in the white man lies history=his story the pale man will tell anyone anything research research research I stop believing what the pale man says along long time ago never trust the oppressors FACTS!!
It wasn’t the people making these choices a few at the top like it is now a few
It’s extremely frustratingly funny, I guess when you speak of the devil and the devil looks like you then it must be hard to call your father an earth demon, that worships, evil. And when all you have to look at from your history is murder and death then you have to at least attempt to put some sugar on it.
If she had not left out the other tribes , the death toll would have been more like a millions
I agree the trails of tears happened in the south West as well.
@@tinyc6334 Yes it did , we live less than 1/4 mile from the trail of tears . This is also the home of choctaw code talkers . Very brave men
@@mchillbilly1956 we have many Dine (Navjo) code talkers as well...
@@tinyc6334 Yes there was several tribes that were brave code talkers and they all should be recognised as heros
@@tinyc6334 We must make sure that nothing like that ever happens again . God bless you and yours
My great great grandmother Rebecca neugin (well now goes by Rebecca neugin) Was three years old when she survived the trail of tears. if it wasn't for her I wouldn't be here today. I'm very grateful for her. It was weird when I found out from my aunt when she found out on ancestry. Rebecca was also a full blooded Cherokee. I also can't believe we came from Georgia sense me and my family have lived in Oklahoma all of our lives.
I read somewhere that one of the reasons for that removal, was that gold was found in Georgia.
So that's why the Cherokee nation moved to Oklahoma, my mom's people are still in Georgia (one of the few it never made any sense to me why the rest of the Cherokee were in Oklahoma, the rest of her race, culture but her immediate family were still their, now I know, thanks for explaining 🤔for my native side, 😉
Do what you want...your actions will be judged by the highest authority
Beautifully explained and eloquently stated!
REMOVE JACKSON FROM THE $20!
Lee Lewis Harriet Tubman may get the go-ahead as his replacement. First Lady Eleanor is a Runner's up.
Fuck you. Jackson fought the banks and private power wanting to seize control of America. He fought the evil, racist, greedy Whiggish aristocrats for a time but they got in after his reign and ruined America; and biased histories ever since have ruined Jackson's reputation. Jackson was a flawed but real American, not like the traitorous Whigs who socially engineered America to become the fascist/capitalist empire it is today.
I agree put our Indian chiefs on the money!!
Tmk777 cmon there no justification bro a real american so u agreeing u have to white your braimwashe
Touche
This was so well said, we need more people who aren’t afraid to speak the truth! And nothing but the truth!
I understand why this history was omitted. I tried not to laugh when she stated her disbelief of this omitted history. History is told through the lens of the oppressor. These historical facts do not fit the Euro-American conceptual history. It's just that simple.
Exactly!
My ancestors were wronged and forced to walk the hard road!! This makes my blood boil and this is still going on today!! It sicken me 🤮🤮🤮 these people who pushed my people outta there home land have a special place in hell!! 😠😠😠
To those Americans who attempt to excuse this by suggesting that every race throughout history has done things like this, therefore it's ok, (the premise of which is not true, but neither is it the point), take a step back for a moment and look around you. This is still going on today, with Tribal sovereignty being undermined at every turn by the US government, and indigenous populations being blamed by the dominant culture for a state of poverty and dysfunction inflicted upon them by generations of mistreatment, displacement and abuse at the hands of that government. Genocide is not a thing of the past. If anything, it has evolved to become slyer and more insidious than it ever was.
hey, listen My great-grandmother was Native American (comanche) and I can say that the Natives are getting their revenge, what do you think Casinos are for?
Also technically Native American isn't are Race, but an Ethnic group, only three races exist Caucasian,African,Asian.
Nathaniel Rincon Genetic drift buddy, ever heard of it?
Masculine1 Still doesn't actually mean race. Considering that the Original Native Americans had nothing in common with any race EXCEPT ASIAN.
Nathaniel Rincon In reality there's so many different haplogroups, each race has thousands of them! There is variety even among different races. There are subraces if you didn't know. Also, African isn't a race;there are two different races living in the continent of Africa, the Caucasians in North Africa and the Sub-Saharan Africans in Sub-Saharan Africa. If African is a race according to you, then that means a Berber or Algerian is the same genetically as a Congan or Nigerian! Not true, they're both totally different racially and genetically!
Masculine1 I like how you are using the modern set up of Africa to describe African whereas I am using the historic (we're basically canceling each other out there.)
and as for subraces I am well aware of them however like I said above I'm focusing on the base races (historically speaking and they are non existent in that regard)
I heard nothing about the Choctaw Tribe or Africans that were apart of The Trail of Tears. What's that about?
My great great grandparents were both half Cherokee Indians and both survived the Trail Of Tears all the way to Oklahoma.
I hope they weren’t $5.00 Indians.
The Matrix No they weren’t I actually saw a real picture of them they had copper red skin and Native American features they almost looked full blood.
DragonCat, can you become a citizen of The Cherokee Nation? My Chickasaw ancestors walked the Trail of Tears and I am a citizen of The Chickasaw Nation. I enjoy many benefits from my tribe and some other privileges.
@@ifloridawarriorcatfan9918 See if your great grandparents are on the Dawes Roll. If so it will change your life. Chokma
I have relatives on Oklahoma, the Nail family
SAY WHAT IT IS .THEY TOOK WTF THEY WANTED !
If that was OK then, It should be OK now.
@@Israelite-iq1gd IT WAS NOT OK .😨😨😨😬😬😬🤤😲
@@charleskellam1675 Indian tribes had done the same for centuries? Sorry to say this, but that's just conquest.
J. Geil another stupid Person trying to justify
Obviously? That is what winners do.
I am mix raced Cree,British,French Canadian and I can tell you and this is a promise that our Native People will get the Justice and recognition we have waited so long for.
BIG CHANGES ARE COMING BUT MUST BE DONE PEACEFULLY HOWEVER WE WILL STAND OUR GROUND AND DEFEND IT BY ALL MEANS NECESSARY.
GOD BLESS US ALL
I have no words for how very *excellent* this presentation is.
Are you a philosemite?
@@yupisaid Not sure - what does that mean, exactly?
@@rosemcguinn5301 Do you love Jews?
@@yupisaid Why do you ask?
@@rosemcguinn5301 Haha, I tried to say that this is a [redacted] run and funded channel, and it deleted my comment.
I wonder, why would TH-cam have their filter set so that a comment saying such a thing (which is objectively true btw) would get immediately deleted?
You can appreciate and agree with what's posted in a video, but perhaps look into who exactly are making these things, and maybe speculate about the motivation,
and why this type of content seems to be near ubiquitous nowadays.
She said it was a matter of "taking things away from the Cherokees and giving them to US Citizens." Cherokees WERE US Citizens. THE ORIGINAL US CITIZENS. A better word she might have used for "US Citizens" would be colonizers. And a better word she might have used for "Indians" would be "Native Americans". The first and foremost Americans.
I agree with your upholding the Cherokee right to the land they had made use of for centuries. Perhaps worth noting, however, that no Native person was recognized as a United States citizen until 1924,
Sadly, the Cherokee were not US citizens at the time. As far as I know, an "Indian" wasn't a US citizen til 1924. If they had been actual US citizens, with all the rights of White US citizens, this tragedy wouldn't have happened.
@@patriciasawin946 Unbelievable.
THEY SURE ARE FIRST CITIZENS
Native Americans were the first citizens
Ms. Sturgis does an absolute magnificent job here. Thank you!
Teach to warn our children to never forget.💔 🙏🏿🙏🏽🙏🏼
So called Blacks Hispanics native Indigenous Aboriginal
Ameeika lied about almost everything
EVERY DAMM THING
Every damn thing!
About EVERYTHING
all they do is lie arent they tired
almost every nation does this lol
Your opening statement explains why we are facing the present insanity which has caught up with itself.
The “trail of tears” has grown larger a remained in “full force and effect” to date.
It is a sad part of history, I am a descendent of Tsalagi runaways that ran and hid deep in the mountains of South Eastern Kentucky. The cabin they built in 1840, is still standing and still being lived in by my Great Uncle, has a trap door in the floor where they would hide the women and children and the men would lead the soldiers away from the house if they came back looking for them. They started to sell mules and horses and said they were foreign to be able to explain their accent and color. I am only a 1/4, but I am proud to be what I am because against all odds, here I am almost 200 years later, and my son and nephew are here to carry on the next generation. We can look back and remember, but we can't be bitter inside, we need to live and enjoy life, that is what our great great grandparents would have wanted, not to stay angry about the past. I love this country, my great grandfathers fought in World War 1 in the Marine Corps, Grandfather was a Marine in WWII, and Korea, Uncle was a Marine in Vietnam, I was a Marine in Iraq and Afghanistan, we love this country, it is the greatest country in the world, we just need to learn and remember that past, so it isn't done again, but not dwell in the past.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is Tsigali
@@pinkiesue849 the Real People, the Cherokee Indian
@@pinkiesue849 TSITSALAGI, I am Cherokee
My great grandmother came across in the trail of tears in a covered wagon at the age of 13. But she was not Cherokee she was Potawatomi! The Trail of Tears wasn’t just the Cherokees!!
I didn't know about that.
@@pinkiesue849 my mom still has that journal along with some amazing stories about how they all lived and who died along the trail and were buried. It’s a sad tale to read but it’s an accurate account.
no wonder God gave them the GREAT DEPRSSON GOD IS GOOD HE all ways PAY BACK
"The Truth will set you Free" Free from Lies! Well done young lady let The Truth be Known! History is a Witness.
Thank you for a well documented case of THE TRAIL OF TEARS
THE IRS WAS INSTITUTED THE SAME WAY !
Bill Patterson way back
These atrocities will not go unpunished! God reigns!!!! 🙌🏾
I'm part Cherokee Indian , so I know about this, very sad chapter on our history.😔🦅🦃
Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Exodus 23:32
My Gadite Ancestors made deadly, deadly mistake... Never again!
black's need to make a tax revolt in the usa period
kazimir kennedy since they lie and say that black people only make up 13% of America’s population we shouldn’t have to pay taxes that could be our reparation
@@robertwilliams9322 then be a sell out period
@Derrick Culler then just be a sell out
@Derrick Culler That's misinformation, The Creek and Seminoles of the Southeastern Territory of America which are now the States of Alabama and Florida were the first to fight against the European pale-faced colonizers from the North encroachment upon the land in the Southeast in the Creek Indian War of 1812.
The so called Creeks, Seminoles and Negroes intermarry with each other because they all spoke the PALEO Hebrew language and KNEW that they were Hebrew Yisrahlites.
My Great Grandfathers were so called Creeks Warriors. My Great Grandmother was born around 1868. Her Father & Grandfathers were Creek chiefs and warriors and her Mother born around 1830 was a so called Negro and she told us that her husband came from Africa.
Yes many of the so called Five Civilized Tribes did sellout but because my Grandfathers declared WAR , fought battles against Andrew Jackson and Never signed the Treaty they were NEVER slaves and never left our land.
Around 1830, the European colonizes in their US Cenus reclassified the aboriginal Natives as so called Negroes because they Knew we were the same people..... Hebrew Isralites !
The EUROPEANS Never like to discussed the CREEKS because they feared them. Unlike the other so called Civilized tribes the Creeks were hostile and would war against them! FACTS!!!
Robert Williams reparations are retarded, you just wanna be a lazy fucker. It’ll do nothing but put us deeper into debt.
"Divide and conquer"
Yes and nation have there day of quote "divide and conquer."
Debt still unpaid
Former Congressman under Jackson, Davey Crockett had it right when he was quoted as saying, "There was a difference between fighting, between defending oneself, and going into someone's home, and stealing all their stuff, and then shooting them in the back!" I'll remember The Alamo better now because of these insights.
Emerson's eloquent protest was worth rereading. It was probably his best work, though it fell on Van Buren's deaf ears and hard heart. Thank you, Dr. Sturgis for that video also.
The bible says that the enemies(devil) comes to steal kill and destroy...now the European/ Caucasian race has done this to every race of people on this Earth.
@@daphneytennard3267 There are men (and women) of every tribe, that do abhorrent acts.
They have never been representatives of every pigment-percentaged person that they resemble.
Good will and ill will exist among every shade of color, and foreign facial feature, eh?
My great grand father told me about the trail of tears native American history an American holocaust!
He said that someday this nation will face the same thing as we have seen and the trail of tears will become that for all people, there tears will become that of a river! I'm 89 years old now and have told now about this to my great grandchildren if not careful, we may face once again tears!
Very well done. I didn't know about a lot of this until about 30 years ago when I pastored a church in Western NC, roughly 10 miles from the Reservation. The Cherokee were the most assimilated Native people in the country. They had plantations, farmed, adapted to European fashion, and carried out commerce. I agree with you the Trail of Tears should never have happened. It and other such incidents are a national shame and an atrocity in our history.
The Long Walk of the Navajo people are with the Trail of Tears of the Cherokee people.. we are all brothers and sisters.. my heart is with you my relatives..
My Grandmother told me about hiding in caves in the mountains to keep her with her family during this time.
What did your grandfather say?
He was not with her. It was when she was a child. His family were sharecroppers and came from England.
Best explanation I've heard on this subject!
@@daphneytennard3267 say who?
do research yourself don't listen to the history books or what people want to teach you but if you do history if you do critical thinking yes we are the Aboriginal people of the Americas a dark-skinned people.
Philosemite
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@@aborigineone2377 WE WUZ DA INDIANZ N SHIEET
Thomas Jefferson predicted the future he expected for America while on his deathbed.
"I shudder and quake when I consider what is to come for my nation. For I know that God is just, and God's justice will not sleep forever."
Yes, he knew. He knew that what they had done to the Africans and the indigenous people would one day come back to haunt them. The day of reckoning is near. There will be justice.
Sequoia is my relative... I love learning about that part of my heritage...
Creator comes for us one day soon, the tears will be no more. Take care of the little ones.
Aloha
I live in Hopkinsville, Ky and we have a Trail of Tears park and have an annual Pow Wow every year!!! We lost two Chiefs during the Trail of Tears because they endured one the hardest winters and Chief White Path and Chief Fly Smith passed away!!! This act by Andrew Jackson was nothing short of crimes against humanity!!!
This is so timely to the plight we as a common People of all nations face, as we are confronted by an increasingly hostile, wealthy, criminal class. Wherever they make themselves much, in the private or public sectors; be they religious or secular; polled as ugly or beautiful; they only always want the short-term for themselves, at the harm, or death, of whomever they disfavor.
Dr. Sturgis, are you doing any radio interviews? This would be so powerful right now! Love your neighbor as yourself!
I wish I could live free in the woods like my ancestors did, now everyone owns all the land, you need permits to hunt even if you are allowed to hunt you can only kill one deer a year, you can't cut trees to build shelter etc.
stop eating poor animals you dirty beast.
+Mattie L Harper I guess you think it better for the deer to over populated and then die from disease.
Ya really
It would be nice to go back and see what it is like, try taking a trip to Alaska or Canada and do that,(after a permit of course.)
It's called the life cycle all animals get eaten by not just humans but other animals, I knew that in 2nd grade
They killed our ancestors and then called us black and Africans.
The descendants of the trail of tears in Oklahoma, are the same people who built black Wall Street
Cece Mantis Exactly, some of them. There were some sold into slavery throughout the Caribbean.
Trail Of Tears ,.. I read this book when I was in my 20s. It has been on my bookshelf since.Tecumseh, Sitting Bull and Pocahontas and Sacajawea are also on that shelf...
if a Chief ran in this election, I would vote for him/ her!
Me,too !! So sick of Washington insiders. Enough already !
We have a descendant.. of the Trail Of Tears people's in office..... Elizabeth Warren. Kamala Harris..is also...First Nation Heritage.
The Trail of Tears should always be remember and taught in our public schools so our children can learn about the history of the U.S.A. 😃. And tell us all the real truth .
This is so beautifully done and shown. I appreciate someone knowing their information before giving it to the world. This is such a gruesome and awful topic and it hurts me to think of what my ancestors did and thought. It is even sadder that this still happens in current modern times. We as a people need to learn from our mistakes and not only keep our nation from repeating the past, but also help other nations and countries to see what they are doing and the long-term effect.
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What I take from this is That although it seems Gods sleeps and there is no justice, I know, trust and believe one day when it is served. I will be elated that truth Lives, That God knows best and as
those responsible as the Bible states will pay double. 12/13/19
Plus interest with sincere apology.
Religion is fake
HALLELUYAH
Now you have a lot of $5 Indians claiming the culture...
I think it's a good idea to take a trip to the Library of Congress to take a look at what indigenous America looked like for real...
The American Indian musem in in walking distance of the Library of Congress. You would be better if going there to see what Indians looked like. The African American museum is also in walking distance. There you could see what black People looked like and read about our accomplishments in the New World
When you read the description from Christopher Columbia and others they talk about a dark skin people here The Indians that we see today and we saw in the movies are nowhere near dark skinned!
To me this lady speaking in this video is no more as her ancestors a $5 Indian and that's being honest I'm not trying to be hurtful but I'm being honest.
@@Grey_Wolf_Carolina to be honest that was my first thought .
Period
Nicely said! The Trail of Tears “ I can still hear your cry. God heal our nation of such evil
This one thing has broke my heart for years.
My great great grandfather john goins had been left on the porch of a white family,in crossville Alabama, after leaving ft.payne Alabama. Although I wouldn't be here if this hadn't happened, I feel sick at the thought of Andrew Jackson and those that made this happen.
I often think about these people,how through humility, recieved Gods grace.james chapter 4.
I will love to meet those in my family lineage.thank you for further explaining this big part of history to Americans
Wow that is so sobering. I hope someone was good to your gg grandfather. It wasn't all whites, it was a lot of elites who pulled the genocide of American Natives.
It's amazing how everyone wants to tell someone else's story. I will leave the story up to the Indians for they have the knowledge from their ancestors
She is Indian
Today's image is not what the Indians looked like.
You're right, just a lot of $5 white people😂
@lori jallissa springberg4 truth hurts, here's a aspirin🤕
Bonnie Miller, If your heart tells you you are CHEROKEE than I being of Cherokee blood consider you my sister! My tears are your tears, and you are welcomed into a nation of American Indians! Share and stand strong, you are now a warrior princess! XOXO
My great great great great grandfather,Dragon Canoe,believed if you had one drop of blood that was Cherokee then you were Cherokee
BAAAHAAA 😂 Ridiculous! If you aren't enrolled with the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the United Keetowah Band of Cherokee (also in Oklahoma) or Eastern Band of Cherokee (North Carolina), guess what? No amount of "feelings" or "in my heart" counts for a hill of beans😂 Stop the Pretendian, Wannabe, Outaluck, culture vulturing.
I'm am so sorry for your people to have had to go through this injustice..very sad.totally mean cruel..
I taught this when I was a teacher to 8th graders--such a sad story-
And THIS is exactly what we're doing in the middle east! When will we ever learn????
jerrylittlemars when will they ever learn
And this is why “Babylon the Great has fallen” and fall it will greatly and completely. Selah!!!
Shalawam yes it will
God bless Davie Crockett and all those who stood up to their white brethren in behalf of us natives!
My greatgrandmothers mom was on the trail of tears as a young girl Her n.v ame was Sunflower Melody watching this presentation i am going to find her name on the register and appreciate her determination and Heart thanks for this video Sincerly BP
Read the Dear America book, The girl who cased away Sorrow. It's about just this and gives an insight to the thoughts of Indians during this cruel time. What would do today if someone came in burned all your good and sources of food until you were starving and forced you and your family to walk go nowhere without explanation and made you sleep out in the open on the ground in the winter!
I have documented record that my Great x 3 Grandmother walked the Trail of Tears with Chief Joseph. My Father held Tribal membership with the Choctaw Nation in Armore, Okla.
Amazing I would love to view this
I don’t believe it
I have a trail next to my house and they took the sign that said, “The trail of tears” off and made it conservation area because of this
trying to hide the terrible injustice.
You don't owe me anything, I never claimed you did. If you don't see anything wrong with how both the American federal govt or even the Canadian federal govt treated- and continues to treat- Indian populations than there is nothing more we have to say to one another. A country can't move forward without acknowledging the wrong doings of its past, particularly when it involves a genocide.
Their famous line was , you have so much, you’re not using it.
I weep at the evil, unforgivable actions of what they the white man did and yet it still goes on. The the Trail of Tears should be in every classroom teaching the truth of what the white man did! I am a white woman and struggle every day to knowing they were my ancestors. I wanted to remind the world every day of what happened , so I had the Trail of Tears tattooed on my arm . I hope this is acceptable, but it is the only way I can show the world of the evil actions of what the white man did. It is the only tattoo I will ever want! Love, Peace And Respect Always. Cymru ( Wales) 🤝✌🏽❤️
Sally Ann: have you been told of the Welch prince Madoc who came over with about 12 ships of people from Wales? Their tribe also has been decimated. It is terrible. I don't know why white people would come over and "get rid" of other white people. There is more to the partial genocide than just racism, the elite have something to do with this.
Even the title of this damned event has been whitewashed. When they reached Little Rock, a Choctaw chief referred to their trek as a *"trail of tears and death"*
And he called it that because that is what it was, a death march.
Where Bill and killery hang out
The choctaw have a different term for their removal the trail of tears is just the name of the cherokee removal
It reminds me of the Bataan March, when Japan captured American soldiers, and made them March to Bataan.
no matter how you look at this tthis is stiiiil mad murder an government got away with massive loss of life
Yes and no. the massive loss of life was caused by the Panic of 1837, which lasted into the early 1840's. The tribes that were re-located before then were treated fairly well.
i dont know why the nation's dont take the government to court and request them to leave there lands
Delay, deny ,rewright under satins influences this is the season of correction and healing
Hello brothers and sisters, The whole world is and has been under repression, what we have right now is the begging of the end of an unfair, injustice system...
I have made my home on your land 20 years ago and come here as a war refuge from Albanian lands that have been sliced into pieces...
I greet you fellow men and women from the center of my heart!
Wow great video, I'm in a U.S. history class and my book had no info on the case going to the supreme court.
There are a lot of hidden stories, continue to research for knowledge and you will be surprised.
A very educational video and thank for the information. It really disgusts me that someone as evil as Andrew Jackson is on our $20 bill. Anyone who believes he was a hero is as evil and vile as he was. Jackson has innocent blood on his hands! As a country, I do hope we learn from this tragedy and never ever let it happen again. My Crow family is supposed to be of Cherokee descent along with Tuscarora; also maternal grandmother had Cherokee ancestors.
All so sadly true the bible states that vengeance belong to God and he will repay for all the injustice past and present including what happened to his son on the cross for sinners and sadly for the most part we still do not get it human nature is stubborn and rebellious
The ironic thing about this, is that the Cherokees brought along their slaves. I don't even know how to process that right now.
the process of learning doesn't end
My great-grandmother Malinda Elizabeth Basinger was part Cherokee from Tennessee and was not counted in the Dawe's Roll.
This story makes me cry.
Moor in the Etymon translates to Dirt, Dust, Soil, Sut, Clay, Earth, Land. From dust we come to dust we return. Moor also translates from the word Muur which means The Enlightened Ones. It also translates to Children of the Most High. Fashioned and molded from the Most High God.
Baby Boy Hollywood in what language does Muur mean The enlightened ones?
The real natives were black ...so more things you did not know
Sounds like what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.
Exactly!!
No ,because jews are the only remaining indigenous people of what is today Israel.Arabs there are but one of left over groups of foreigners who invaded and occupied that land of the Jews.
Similar to the story of Ahab and Naboth: wanting what belongs to someone else. Since they were supposed to be God-fearing people, they had to know what the Bible says about coveting others' property.
Yes, they knew it was wrong! By the time of the Removal many Cherokee People had adopted white ways and were considered more "civilized" than their white neighbors. By then most Cherokee had converted to Christianity through the Moravian Missionaries. My great great grandfather, John Kizziah King was a half Muskogee Creek/ half white horse trader. He married my great great grandmother Sally Smoke, a full blood Cherokee woman. When the soldiers came to force her parents and siblings into the concentration camps, Sally hid on a ridge and watched her family being forcibly marched to the camps to be held until the soldiers were ready to force them to Indian Territory. Grandpa King said she never saw her parents and siblings again. My Cherokee family originated in the high rugged mountains of the Northeastern Georgia Blue Ridge. My great great grandparents had two sons. One was my great grandfather, Jasper King, known also by the name Tawquit. His brother was named Two Hatchet. My great great grandfather died of Blights Disease and Sally later got married to another Cherokee. And she and her new husband moved North up to what is now known as the Qualla Boundary. She is buried somewhere on the Qualla Boundary. I met a fullblood Ketuwah elder, Betty Mouse of the Western Cherokee and over dinner we talked and come to find out, my great great great grandfather Rising Smoke survived the Trail Where they Cried and some of his decendants are living in Oklahoma to this day. The Indian Removal of 1838 caused my family to be split up. Separated between Oklahoma and North Carolina.
The real indigenous peoples were black peoples. Stop lying We already know
STOP !!! THE ISRAELITES WERE SCATTERED !!! EVERY WHERE !!!!
Waiting on them to admit that truth. Until then, they're still lying by ommission.
@Isaiah Jones yep lol
@Isaiah Jones Not long but over a year. Why?
@Isaiah Jones Oh. No agent here. Just searching.