JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY 1825 1850
THE TRAIL OF TEARS
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There are 16, 000 Cherokees
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The 5 civilized tribes walked about l, 000 miles on the Trail of Tears.
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4, 000 people from the civilized tribes died.
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The 5 civilized tribes are the Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, Cherokee, and Chickasaw.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Today, the Cherokee Nation is the largest tribe in the United States with more than 430, 000 tribal citizens worldwide.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Cherokee were farming people. Cherokee women did most of the farming, harvesting crops of corn, beans, squash, and sunflowers. Cherokee men did most of the hunting, shooting deer, bear, wild turkeys, and small game. They also fished in the rivers and along the coast.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1838 and 1839 U.S. troops, prompted by the state of Georgia, expelled the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral homeland in the Southeast and removed them to the Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.
Detailed explanation-4: -Today, there are an estimated 2, 000 first language Cherokee Speakers, with several thousand more, considered beginner or proficient speakers through the tribe’s language programs.