This interactive features illustrated stories of the strategies that American Indian leaders from six different nations used in their attempts to keep their homelands.
This interactive uses primary sources, quotes, images, and short videos of contemporary Cherokee people to tell the story of how the Cherokee Nation resisted removal and persisted to renew and rebuild their nation.
The Treaty of New Echota was used by the United States to justify the removal of the Cherokee people along the Trail of Tears.
Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition and the author of Jacksonland, discusses President Andrew Jackson’s long-running conflict with John Ross, a Cherokee chief who resisted the removal of Indians from the eastern United States in the 1830s.
The Indian Removal Act, signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, became for American Indians one of the most detrimental laws in U.S. history.
Catherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer for the Cherokee Nation, gives a talk on what led up to the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
Why did treaty-making with Indian nations fall into disfavor? The answer lies in understanding the transformation of American thought about Indian nations after the Civil War.
Catherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer for the Cherokee Nation, addresses the Trail of Tears and the events that led up to the removal of the Cherokee people.
