The Trail of Tears. That's what we're sucking today.

And an overview of the events that led up to the Trail of Tears.

Every group of people, every nation has ever existed in the history of meat stacks

for any length of time has been responsible for reprehensible acts.

And the Trail of Tears is one of those acts for the United States.

As the beginning of the 1830s, nearly 125,000 various tribal members lived on millions of acres of land

in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. Land where their ancestors had lived

for generations. By the end of that decade, very few Indigenous Americans remained

anywhere in the South East turn United States. The federal government forced and believed

their homelands and walked hundreds of miles, sometimes thousands of miles to especially

designated Indian territory across the Mississippi River, present day Oklahoma.

In this difficult and deadly journey, thousands would die along the way,

would be known as the Trail of Tears. Not only is it a terrible event to look back on,

many people at the time knew it was a terrible event, but it happened anyway.

As new waves of European settlers kept pouring into America, farming land along the coast was

quickly taken up, farming land for growing cotton in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, Florida,

and Tennessee was especially coveted. New settlers wanted that land and they would do almost

anything to get it, including taking it from tribe members who, yes, had lost their battles against

the US government, but also could have been treated far more fairly in the aftermath.

Rather than work to assimilate the tribes into American culture, the US federal government

under President Andrew Jackson and his Indian Removal Act passed by Congress in 1830 chose to

banish them to less desirable land. Though the entire process of Indian Removal to last

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