[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***I consider what was done to the Cherokee one of the vilest things. They had their own written language of sorts even before the Europeans,***

It was Sequoia, of the Oklahoma Cherokees who developed their alphabet in the early 1800's.

Many of the rich Cherokees voluntarily moved to Oklahoma, and took their black African slaves with them, and the rest tried not to move, hoping for a better deal. They didn't get it.
The Cherokee history of the Trail of Tears is highly complicated but should be understood by all.

[Minus_The_Bear]

***I consider what was done to the Cherokee one of the vilest things. They had their own written language of sorts even before the Europeans,***

Anyone who actually believes that should repeat the 3rd grade.

[lepton]

It was Sequoia, of the Oklahoma Cherokees who developed their alphabet in the early 1800's.

Oops. Right. My goof. It was their own language, but later, when they had an example.

[lepton]

Many of the rich Cherokees voluntarily moved to Oklahoma, and took their black African slaves with them, and the rest tried not to move, hoping for a better deal. They didn't get it.

That *was indeed* a complicated thing. One of the early running conflicts was that even though the Cherokee were allied with South Carolina at least, the State would buy slaves (often being Cherokee) from their enemies, and refused to free them back to the Cherokee.