The Cherokees were the primary tribe that Andrew Jackson packed up and sent onto the “Trai of Tears”. There is still a Cherokee reservation on the North Carolina side of Smoky Mountain National Park. The delegate would be a reminder that tribes, like the Cherokees, are sovereign nations within the United States. The Cherokee took their black slaves with them as chattel. Thousands of Cherokee slaves died on the trail of tears.
I was friends with a mixed race girl in college.
She considered herself black, but was proud of her Cherokee heritage.
She was shocked when I explained how that, probably, came to be.
22 posted on 11/25/2022 6:17:26 AM PST by Eagles6
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