[Video] Tsalagihi Ayeli: The Cherokee People & Nation - The Trail Of Tears

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"The Cherokee Nation" (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ - "Tsalagihi Ayeli", or, ᏣᎳᎩᏰᎵ - "Tsalagiyehli"), also known as: the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is the largest of three Cherokee federally recognized tribes in the United States. It was established in the 20th century and includes people descended from members of the Old Cherokee Nation, who relocated, due to increasing pressure, from the Southeast to Indian Territory and Cherokee who were forced to relocate on the "Trail of Tears". It’s estimated, that 16,000 Cherokee people eventually were "forced" to undertake the "six to seven month journey" to “Indian Territory”, in the land beyond Arkansas. Between the stockades, starvation and sickness.. and the harsh winter conditions, some 4,000 Cherokee people perished, never reaching their new land. Taking place in the 1830's, the "Trail of Tears" was "the forced and brutal relocation" of approximately 100,000 Indigenous people belonging to: Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Seminole, among other Nations, living between Michigan, Louisiana and Florida to land west of the Mississippi River.


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