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Trail of Tears (1080 HD Official) OneManClanStudios / AVUX & Digital Entertainment Facebook: http://smarturl.it/OMCFacebook SoundCloud: http://smarturl.it/OMCSoundCloud Directed by: John Neff Facts: RunTime: Aprox. 16Min, 15 w/o Credits+Intro RenderTime: 12 Days Hours Worked on: 280 Hours Plot: A captured tribe of Native Americans is forced on a dangerous trail to be relocated.

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South Eastern United States

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This took place 1831-1850

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In 1830 Congress, urged on by President Andrew Jackson, passed the Indian Removal Act which gave the federal government the power to relocate any Native Americans in the east to territory that was west of the Mississippi River.

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Federal government of the United States, United States Army

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At the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida–land their ancestors had occupied and cultivated for generations. By the end of the decade, very few natives remained anywhere in the southeastern United States.

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The Cherokee Natives refer to the forced relocation as 'Nunahi-Duna-Dlo-Hilu-I' or 'Trail where they cried'.
The trek to their designated lands west of the Mississippi River was more than 1,000 miles long. The long and treacherous journey was made by foot.

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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, 1876. In late 1875, Sioux and Cheyenne Indians defiantly left their reservations, outraged over the continued intrusions of whites into their sacred lands in the Black Hills. They gathered in Montana with the great warrior Sitting Bull to fight for their lands.

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The Battle of the Little Bighorn was the most successful action fought by the American Indians against the United States Army in the West. It was part of the Campaign of 1876, an effort by the United States Government to force the Sioux tribes onto their Reservations

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The major effect of the Battle of the Little Bighorn (where Custer and his men got annihilated) was that it really got Americans in general very angry at the Indians and much more motivated to end the wars.

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Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho victory

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Jun 25, 1876 – Jun 26, 1876

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The forced relocation of most of the Five Civilized Tribes of the Southeastern United States to Indian Territory under the Indian Removal Act of 1830 signed by U.S. president Andrew Jackson clearing former Native American lands for white settlement.

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The Battle of the Little Bighorn, fought on June 25, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory, pitted federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer (1839-76) against a band of Lakota Sioux and Cheyenne warriors.

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The forced relocation of American Indians began with the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

In 1838, the Cherokee Indians became the fifth major tribe to experience forced relocation to Indian Territory. The Cherokee Nation moved from its ancestral homeland in parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama to land set aside for them in what is now the state of Oklahoma.

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United States of America, Lakota people, Cheyenne, Arapaho

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Congress passed Public Law 100-192 in 1987. This designated two Cherokee routes that were taken during their removal as National Historic Trails in the United States' National Trail System.

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General Winfield Scott sped the removal along as well as put many Indians into stockades along the way. The Trail of Tears found its end in Oklahoma. Nearly a fourth of the Cherokee population died along the march. It ended around March of 1839.

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The Cherokee people called this journey the Trail Of Tears  because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died.

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The forced relocation of American Indians began with the Indian Removal act of 1830. In 1838, the Cherokee Indians became the fifth major tribe to experience forced relocation to Indian Territory .