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The mass removal of the Cherokee people in Western NC followed the Unicoy Turnpike, a wagon road built between Georgia and east Tennessee in the early nineteenth century. The road linked Fort Butler to the internment camps and emigration depot at Fort Cass, present-day Charleston, Tennessee.

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What is the tone of the poem?

What can you infer about the author?

Mother Nature plays an important part of the story. How does the author make connections to the Trail of Tears through symbolism?

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Painted by Robert Lindneux, 1942

What is happening in this picture?

Where are they going? Why

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The effects of policies during this time are still felt today among Native Americans.

What we did to expand our nation was in fact, ethnic cleansing. What does this mean to you?

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The Consequences of the Trail of Tears | American Experience

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The effects of 1830s policies on Native Americans are still felt today.

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Women petitioned their men to stop negotiating with the U.S. They gathered together to form a petition to resist removal.

What do you see in the picture? What role did women play? Do you think they were influential?

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John Ross represented The Cherokees during the time of removal. He went to the courts to try and resist their removal but unfortunately he was defeated and had to lead his people out of their land.

How did he try to help The Cherokees?

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What do you think The Cherokees went through in those concentration camps? Why were they placed there?

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General Winfield Scott and The Cherokees

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General Winfield Scott and The Cherokees

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General Scott informed The Cherokees during a meeting that they had to leave their land.

What do you think they were discussing at that moment?

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What do you think this photo represents? How do you feel looking at this caricature?

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Andrew Jackson as The Great Father, lithograph. ca. 1835

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Andrew Jackson as The Great Father, lithograph. ca. 1835

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Describe what you see.
What is the main idea of the cartoon?

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What's the big deal?
What role did gold play in the removal of American Indians?

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What do you see?
What do you imagine the Cherokee people saw and felt on this forced march?

Robert Lindneux (1871–1970). The Trail of Tears, 1942. Woolaroc Museum, Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

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Native Knowledge 360°-American Indian Removal Digital Lesson

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What does it mean to remove a people? This inquiry-based lesson for grades 7-12 explores the scope and effects of American Indian removal. Native American perspectives, documents, images, and digital activities help students and teachers understand an important chapter in US history. #NK360