Trail of tears

A "trail of tears and death" is how a Choctaw leader described the experience of his people being forcibly removed from their tribal homelands and sent west of the Mississippi. How many people were affected?

Discover the story behind the Trail of Tears and how a portion of it ended up in Illinois. Check out where in the state you can find this path.

1. page: short text for reading and learning new words;2. page: small quiz to check if the students understood the text / also some interesting history facts.In 1830 the Indian Removal Act was signed. In that Act, all the vast Natives’ lands east of the Mississippi river were to be exchanged for land to the west, called the “Indian colonization zone” (present-day Oklahoma). So the US goverment forced all the tribes from those lands to move, they mostly went on foot and tens of thousands men…

The Trail of Tears shows the cost of division and the strength in unity.

Trail of Tears The ”Trail of Tears” is the name given to the cruelly forced relocation and movement of Native American nations from southeastern parts of the United States following the…

Enduring unimaginable hardships on the Trail of Tears.

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For our third week of class Rhiannon really wanted to do a Native American tribe. She wanted to focus on the Nez Perce (because of Kaya,the...

Explore the story of the Cherokee Nation's removal from their native land. Students can analyze the treaty, view maps of the removal route, explore documents and visuals, and consider discussion questions to learn more about the Nation's removal experience.