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Photographer: Sandra Hughes Tidwell
Taken: January 6, 2020
Caption: Indian Removal Act 1830 Trail of Tears National Trail of Tears
Additional Description: "We appeal to the magnanimity of American Congress for Justice, and the protection of the rights, liberties, and lives, of the Cherokee people... and we expect it from them under that memorable declaration, 'that all men are created equal.'"
Cherokee Chief John Ross on a delegation to Washington, 1924
Cherokee Chief John Ross informed Cherokee Phoenix readers about the Indian Removal act of 1830. Ross and his wife, Quatie, were among the last Cherokee to leave with the John Drew detachment, which passed by Decatur in December 1838. Quatie died on the journey west.
Submitted: January 6, 2022, by Sandra Hughes Tidwell of Killen, Alabama, USA.
Database Locator Identification Number: p631884
File Size: 0.799 Megabytes

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