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Cherokees on "The Trail Where They Cried"

Until 1828, Cherokee Indians called Georgia and several other southeastern states, home. After the first "non-Indians" arrived, Cherokees, along with other Indian cultures experienced the worst over the next 300 years. They would be exposed to disease, famine, warfare, and over 90% of the Indian population would be wiped out.(1) All of the Indian population would be forced to leave their way of like behind and take on the white culture. An example of how poorly the Indians were treated would be the Trail of Tears.
In 1830 Congress passed the Indian Removal Act and Jackson immediately signed it. This disastrous Act was a federal permission slip for states to coerce various tribal communities of the north and eastern areas to extract themselves from their own properties, some of which had been in their families for thousands of years and included sacred spiritual and burial sites, and move out west to land that the white people......

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