“...the power behind the legislation that forced five peaceful American Indian tribes from their homelands and triggered the Trail of Tears, a 1,000-mile death march that would leave 4,000 of 16,000 Cherokees dead along the way.”
Another myth. Jackson drove them out because three tribes ganged up and annihilated another tribe, and Jackson said that that should not be happening in the United States. The Trail of Tears was so-called because it was the whites who cried upon seeing the plight of the Indians. The Indians did not cry and would not accept offered food and clothing. The passed through silently, carrying their dead.
Good post F*** Andrew Jackson!
Where can I find out your version? It’s never cut and dried in history as the lefties try and make out.
And during the Civil War, the tribes of Oklahoma joined the Confederacy against the Union. Many of the other Plains tribes, except the Pawnee and Crow, also joined the South and were the equivalent of a “Western front” against the Union, from Mexico to Canada.
Only a few members of those tribes remained loyal to the Union.