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To: 2banana
Was the Trail of Tears "payback" for the Cherokee Nation in supporting the Confederates?

No, but there were consequences. The western half of the "Indian Territory" was removed from tribal control and became a virtual no-man's land until Oklahoma statehood in 1905. An act of cutting off the nose to spite the face, it exacerbated lawlessness in that part of the country for decades.

57 posted on 01/07/2004 9:20:39 AM PST by VadeRetro
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To: VadeRetro
the "Place Where We Cried" was about 2 decades before TWBTS!

the damnyankees DID spend an awful amount of time trying to think of something permanent & HATEFUL to do to the CSA Indians, as well as committing mass rapes, assaults,arsons,tortures,looting & THOUSANDS of coldblooded MURDERS of my people, during & after the war. most of these WAR CRIMES were committed against innocent civilians & helpless CSA POWs!

MY family had at least 92 innocent women, elderly men (too old & infirm to bear arms) & small children raped/tortured/sodomized/robbed & MURDERED during a 4-day orgy of drunken violence in 1864.

free dixie,sw

63 posted on 01/07/2004 9:37:42 AM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. ,T. Jefferson)
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