![]() ![]() In fact, an estimated 4,000 died from hunger, exposure and disease, hence the Trail of Tears name. “People were without adequate provisions and died in the camps. He says it was “as orderly as it could be” but… ![]() The encampments were described as concentration camps and Poteete shares it was the hottest summer and coldest winter as the tribe moved through. Thirteen different detachments of Cherokee proceeded across the Trail. Poteete says Georgians wanted the Cherokee “gone” and between state and federal maneuvering and harassment, the Cherokee signed a fraudulent treaty with the federal government which was then used against them. And so there’s a lot of pressure on this Cherokee Nation government,” Poteete explains. By 1830 he gets the Indian Removal Act passed making provision for tribes to be moved west of the Mississippi River. “Andrew Jackson had come to power in 1828. KSMU Looking east from the marker, the trail represents the types terrain the various tribes had to navigate in the 1830s. They possessed a higher literacy rate than the people in the Nation’s surrounding southern states, and had even begun publishing their own newspaper. He explains that the Cherokee were considered one of the “civilized” tribes with a constitutional government of their own. TroyWayne Poteete is executive director for the National Trail of Tears Association and Chief Justice of the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. “This chapter, and it’s a very sad chapter, of Cherokee history about the removal of our ancestors forcibly from the homelands in the southeast,” says Poteete By the time the tribes had reached Arkansas, they’d already traveled thousands of miles from their homelands in Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. From December 1837 through March 1839, nearly 10,000 Cherokee traversed through Pea Ridge, which at the time was known as Ruddick’s farm. This was the northern route along the Trail of Tears. Which is the same road 24 years after the Trail of Tears happened that the battlefield participants marched up and down,” explains Eades. “The way that we’ve documented the Trail of Tears is, it was also was on the Old Wire Road or Military Road. Kevin Eades is the superintendent at Pea Ridge. See image two for the Trail of Tears path itself. KSMU A Trail of Tears marker crisscrosses a dirt path at Pea Ridge National Military Park. ![]()
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