Trail of Tears

See also: trail of tears

English

Etymology

First originated from a Choctaw chief who described the displacement, quoted in the Arkansas Gazette as a "trail of tears and death". Later popularised in reference to the Cherokees, where it is called ᏅᏃᎯ ᏚᎾᏠᏱᎸᎢ (nvnohi dunatloyilvi, literally “the trail where they cried”) in the Cherokee language.[1]

Proper noun

the Trail of Tears

  1. (historical) The route followed by American Indians moved from their homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi river by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

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References

  1. ^ https://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/entries/trail-of-tears-2294/
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