Trail of Tears segment recognized on Boiling Springs property; statue erected (2024)

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What does the Trail of Tears statue represent? ›

The statue is a commentary on the damage Euro-American settlement inflicted upon Native Americans. The main figure embodies the suffering and exhaustion of people driven from their native lands. Fraser felt a connection to Native American culture, which influenced the creation of the End of the Trail.

Along a quiet, remote stretch of Route 66 near Jerome, MO is the now deteriorated Trail of Tears Memorial. It was built by Larry Baggett to memorialize the plight of the Cherokee Nation's forced march and relocation from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory in Oklahoma.

Between the 1830 Indian Removal Act and 1850, the U.S. government used forced treaties and/or U.S. Army action to move about 100,000 American Indians living east of the Mississippi River, westward to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.

Guided by policies favored by President Andrew Jackson, who led the country from 1828 to 1837, the Trail of Tears (1837 to 1839) was the forced westward migration of American Indian tribes from the South and Southeast. Land grabs threatened tribes throughout the South and Southeast in the early 1800s.

Despite its appeal as a popular American icon, Fraser intended the work as a pointed commentary on the damaging effects of Euro-American settlement on American Indian nations confined on government reservations.

The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. This picture, The Trail of Tears, was painted by Robert Lindneux in 1942. It commemorates the suffering of the Cherokee people under forced removal.

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward. Today the trail encompasses about 2,200 miles of land and water routes, and traverses portions of nine states.

According to estimates based on tribal and military records, approximately 100,000 Indigenous people were forced from their homes during the Trail of Tears, and some 15,000 died during their relocation.

In the 1830s, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly removed thousands of American Indians from their homelands in the southeastern United States. They were relocated to an area of land then known as Indian Territory, now the state of Oklahoma. This tragic event is referred to as the Trail of Tears.

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Can you walk the Trail of Tears? ›

Walking along a hikeable portion of the Trail of Tears is an opportunity to broaden your understanding of the trail. It is a chance to be outside and experience the historical landscape.

Some travelled south along the Mississippi water route to the Arkansas River. They brought their family dogs, which were very important to tribal people. But the river boat captains would not allow animals on the steamers. So, the dogs swam and many drowned, desperately trying to follow their owners.”

European settlers killed 56 million indigenous people over about 100 years in South, Central and North America, causing large swaths of farmland to be abandoned and reforested, researchers at University College London, or UCL, estimate.

Many different tribes once called Kentucky home, including the Cherokee, the Chickasaw, and the Shawnee. The Shawnee hunted and lived in the Bluegrass Region.

The word civilized was applied to the five tribes because, broadly speaking, they had developed extensive economic ties with whites or had assimilated into American settler culture. Some members of these southeastern tribes had adopted European clothing, spoke English, practiced Christianity, and even owned slaves.

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The tears that statues appear to weep are actually beads of condensation accounted for by the statue being made from material of varying density, with condensation forming on the denser (colder) pieces (in this case the eyes). A number of weeping statues have been declared fake by Catholic church officials.

Washington, D.C.'s Thomas Jefferson memorial honors America's founding father, and primary author of the Declaration of Independence.

Description: This image portrays the Trail of Tears, which began in 1831 after Andrew Jackson's signing of the Indian Removal Act. Many tribes were forced out of their lands in the eastern part of the United States and made to travel far west into the untamed lands beyond the Mississippi.