The Trail of Tears, a gruesome event taking place in the mid 1800's. Andrew Jackson and his Indian removal Act, it costed the land of the Cherokees of the east Mississippi River to be taken away from them. Due to the land being stolen, the Cherokees had to migrate to the present-day of Oklahoma. With its devastating events such as, Hunger, disease, and exhaustion. Years later,
The Cherokee people named the migration "The Trail of Tears".
Over 4,000 of 15,000 of Cherokees were killed. The name, "The Trail of Tears", comes from an exact translation of a quote made from Cherokee, "Nunna Daul Tsuny" or "The Trail where they Cried". While Migrating through the years 1938-39, Oklahoma was in a brutal winter. On the other hand.