Jackson, Andrew, “To the Cherokee tribe of Indians east of the Mississippi River,” Digital Public Library of America
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States colonizers forced the Cherokee Nation to give up their homeland and move west of the Mississippi – this event is known as the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee saying “nunna dual trsuny,” roughly translates to “the trail where they cried,” a term that personified the essence of experience. The growing interest during this time of Manifest Destiny - an ideology that believed it was white U.S. citizens’ God-given right to expand across the country – resulted in the removal of a number of Native nations from their traditional homeland, an event that has lived in history as key representation of the United States’ mistreatment of Indigenous people.
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