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The picture on page above is the only known picture that was ever painted about the forced march during 1838 to 1839 under Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy when the Cherokee indians were forced to leave all the land east of Mississippi River. They were migrated to a area in present day Oklahoma. Cherokee people called this the "Trail of tears" because their people saw hunger, disease, and faced exhaustion in a forced march.. and.. 4,000 of 15,000 Cherokees on this forced march died
"The Trail of tears" was painted by Robert Lindneux in 1942, it's his vision of the Cherokee people suffering during forced march. If any depictions of "Trail of tears" were created during this actual march, none were ever found. Image Credit: The Granger Collection, New York
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