"An estimated 4,000 Cherokees were warehoused in Rosss Landing stockades for months awaiting supplies and additional armed guards the Federal Government believed necessary to relocate them on foot to Oklahoma.
So her ancestor separated family members from each other, and put them in cages.
19 posted on 10/18/2018 9:43:36 AM PDT by mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)