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The Trail of Tears, the forced migration of Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole tribe members, and many others, from their ancestral lands in the US Southeast to allowed territory in Oklahoma, resulted in the deaths of over 4,000 Native Americans along the way. What was everyday life on the Trail of Tears like? Thanks to many surviving first-hand accounts of the Trail, we have records of the harsh, brutal realities of daily life during over 1,000 miles of hard traveling.
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History, W. (2025, February 25). What Life On the Trail of Tears Was Like. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/video/3271/what-life-on-the-trail-of-tears-was-like/
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