ID: 901002299 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002299	Record Type: Event/Narrative

	Trail of Tears (American history, 1838-1839)

Note: Removal of Cherokee families from their original homelands in North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Kentucky following an order from United States president Andrew Jackson (1767-1845). Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, requiring Native Americans living in the Southeastern United States to move to Indian Territory or present-day Oklahoma, including the Cherokee. Many Cherokees resisted the order, leading to a forced march led by the U.S. Army, beginning in 1838 and ending in early 1839. An estimated 4,000 Cherokees died on the journey; 300 to 400 others hid in the Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina and Tennessee. These individuals comprise today's Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; survivors in Oklahoma are now organized as the Cherokee Nation and United Keetowah Band of Cherokee Indians.

Display Date: 1838-1839

Names:

	Trail of Tears (American history, 1838-1839) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Trail of Tears, The (American history, 1838-1839) (English,A,N)
	The Trail Where They Cried (American history, 1838-1839) (t,English,U,N)
	The Trail Where They Cried (American history, 1838-1839) (Cherokee,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Named Events (P)
		....<North and South American history> (P)
		........<United States history> (P)
		............Indian Removal (American history, 1830-1839) (P)
		................Trail of Tears (American history, 1838-1839) (P)

Related Iconography:

	associated with .... Indian Wars
	..........(Named Events, North and South American history, United States history, Indian Wars (American history, 1790-1890)) [901002296]

Other Relationships:

	actor is .... Andrew Jackson (American major general, president, 1767-1845)
	.....(Non-Artists) (ULAN)

	located in .... North Carolina
	..... ULAN Candidate

	located in .... Tennessee
	..... ULAN Candidate

	located in .... Kentucky
	..... ULAN Candidate

	located in .... Georgia
	..... ULAN Candidate

	located in .... Alabama
	..... ULAN Candidate

	located in .... Mississippi
	..... ULAN Candidate

	located in .... Arkansas
	..... ULAN Candidate

	located in .... Oklahoma
	..... ULAN Candidate

	related to .... colonization
	.....(governmental functions, functions by specific context, functions (activities), Functions (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... journey
	.....(events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	related to .... Cecil Dick (Native American painter, 1915-1992)
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	related to .... Long, Will West (Cherokee carver, 1869-1946; Eastern Band)
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:

	Trail of Tears (American history, 1838-1839)
	................Museum of the Cherokee Indian [online] (2020-) "The Trail of Tears," accessed 13 May 2020, "Trail of Tears,"
	................National Park Service [online] (1998-) "The Trail of Tears," accessed 13 May 2020, "The Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation,"
	................NCPedia, State Library of North Carolina [online] (2020-) "The Trail of Tears," accessed 13 May 2020, "Cherokee,"
	Trail of Tears, The (American history, 1838-1839)
	................Getty Vocabulary Program rules
	The Trail Where They Cried (American history, 1838-1839)
	................Museum of the Cherokee Indian [online] (2020-) "The Trail Where They Cried," accessed 13 May 2020, "Trail of Tears,"

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ NCPedia, State Library of North Carolina [online] (2020-) accessed 13 May 2020, "Cherokee,"
	................ Museum of the Cherokee Indian [online] (2020-) accessed 13 May 2020, "Trail of Tears,"
	................ National Park Service [online] (1998-) accessed 13 May 2020, "The Trail of Tears and the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation,"
	................ Power, Art of the Cherokee (2007) 152, 170; accessed 13 May 2020