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American Experience
Season 21 · Episode 7
We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears
0.055mApril 27, 2009
The Cherokee would call it Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu, “The Trail Where They Cried.” On May 26, 1838, federal troops forced thousands of Cherokee from their homes in the Southeastern United States, driving them toward Indian Territory in Eastern Oklahoma. More than 4,000 died of disease and starvation along the way.
Episodes
- Episode 1The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Episode 2The Polio Crusade
- Episode 3The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
- Episode 4A Class Apart
- Episode 5We Shall Remain (1): After the Mayflower
- Episode 6We Shall Remain (2): Tecumseh's Vision
- Episode 7We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears
- Episode 8We Shall Remain (4): Geronimo