No fantasy. Jackson defied the Supreme Court and marched the five “civilized” tribes of the southeast at gun point to what is now Oklahoma. Known as The Trail of Tears, this incident is responsible for several different events that have changed American history. Cherokee allied with the Confederacy. David Crockett moving to Texas. The names, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Muscogee, Creek, Seminole and others now being associated with Oklahoma instead of the southeast where they historically lived.
No this is no fantasy. I can remember handing a tribal member a$20 Bill and being asked to please give him something else. Some of the descendents of the tribal members removed think of Jackson in similar to the way Jews think of Hitler.
Oh look, the normalizing absurd liberal bullsh#t brigade had shown up.
Well you know what? When I was a kid, my school banned the use of the name "Tupelo" because Elvis was born there and went on to destroy music with his sexualized hip movements. Teachers would wash out kids mouths for saying Tupelo.
No joke.
Who could blame them?
>> Jackson defied the Supreme Court and marched the five “civilized” tribes of the southeast at gun point to what is now Oklahoma <<
Read your NE Mississippi history (Treaty of Pontotoc, etc.), and you’ll learn that the Chickasaw didn’t leave at gunpoint. They negotiated a much better deal with the USG than did the other “civilized” tribes, and they departed MS and TN under peaceful conditions.
(It’s true, to be sure, that many of them didn’t want to leave the bucolic environs of Pontotoc and Tupelo. But at least they never suffered the “trail of tears” tragedy that befell the Cherokee.)
The author's grandfather would not have subjected his family to such trauma. This is a tall tale, a fib, a lie, a fabrication, a story...whatever you want to call it...the event almost assuredly did not happen as described.