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A photo taken in 1903 of Walking Log Elizabeth “Betsy” Brown Stephens, age 82, a who walked Are you walking with a team? Come up with a the . Walking with Jesus team name and pool your miles to reach your goal. When you’ve completed your “walk” come to the Learn... table at Coffee Hour and receive your prize. 1838 -1839 Can you do all four walks? Why is this called the Trail of Tears? Trail of Tears Date Distance Where Why were the Cherokee forced to leave their homes? Where did they go? How long did it take for them to get there? Who was the President of the at this time?

In the summer of 1838, U.S. troops arrested approx. 1,000 , marched them to Fort Hembree in , then on to deportation camps in .

... and Ponder 2200 Miles What would it feel like to suddenly have to leave your home without taking anything with you? Take Flat Jesus with you, take photos of Have you or someone you know moved to a brand He has told you, O mortal, what is good; your adventures, and send them to new place? [email protected]! and what does the Lord require of you but Posting your pics on Facebook or What was hard about that? to do justice, and to love kindness, and to Instagram? Tag First Pres by adding Why was the relocation wrong? walk humbly with your God? @FirstPresA2 #FlatJesus. Micah 6:8 “The Trail of Tears,” was painted in 1942 by Robert Lindneux 1838-1839 Trail of Tears to commemorate the suffering of the Cherokee people. As part of ’s policy, the was forced to migrate from their ancestral homelands east , a Cherokee of the River to an area now in credited with saving Andrew Jackson’s life during the War of designated as . The 1812, was forced to march the migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion Trail of Tears. on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. In the Cherokee 44

M Louisville language, the relocation is called nu na da ul is INDIANA si ss ip Ri p ver i 65 tsun yi (“the place where they cried”) or nu na o i Snelson-Brinker Cabin Oh MISSOURI Rolla

Massey Ri ve 57 Iron 55 r hi du na tlo hi lu i (the trail where they cried). Works Laughlin Elizabethtown KANSAS Park

Camp Trail of Tears Ground McGinnis Cemetery er State Park Cemetery Riv Trail Segment Northern Hildebrand REMOVAL CAMPS Anna Berry's Ferry Route Bollinger Mill Jackson After being forcibly removed from Route Crabb-Abbott Farm Northern their homes in , , Mantle Rock Tennessee, and North Carolina, most Cape Girardeau Oh Route io 24 Cherokee are moved into 11 removal Springfield camps—10 in Tennessee and one in Wilson's Creek Big Spring Alabama. There they await the start TRAIL’S END National Battlefield of an 800-mile journey. Bowling Green Cu m The last detachment arrives in ROSS’S LANDING be rland

Indian Territory on March 24, Location: Present-day Chattanooga, T

e 1839. The Cherokee are promised n Tennessee. From June 6 to June 17, 1838,

subsistence rations through March BENGE ROUTE 57 n Hopkinsville Trail of Tears Commemorative Park three detachments are forced to leave e Riv Columbus-Belmont s er 1, 1840, in compliance with the Starting from Fort Payne, on September s their homeland for Indian Territory. State Park e Treaty of . 28, 1838, Cherokee leader John Benge e

Gray's Inn Pea Ridge escorts 1,079 Cherokee toward present-

FORT CASS National day Stilwell, Oklahoma. VANN’S PLANTATION Location: Present-day Charleston,

Polson Cemetery Military Port Royal State Park Location: Present-day Wolftever Creek, Tennessee. From August 23 to Park Benge Tennessee. Two detachments totaling

December 5, 1838, 10 detachments

Disbandment Route 65 1,642 Cherokee leave in September 1838 totaling 9,302 Cherokee are 24

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WESTVILLE AREA R Fitzgerald Station i 540 v Tulsa Reverend Bushyhead Grave e Nashville 40 Location: Meigs County, Woodhall Homeplace r 40 Fayetteville Tennessee. Nine detachments Knoxville Westville with more than 9,000 Indians 40 Tahlequah 40 cross the . (see list and note below) TENNESSEE Fort Gibson Mrs. Webber's Plantation Stones River Great Smoky Stilwell Taylor Mountains R Evansville National Battlefield CHARLESTON AREA is er National Park o v Route Fort Cass n i i R Drew Route l Batesville l 540 Lewis Ross Home

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Bell-Drane Route 's Rattlesnake Spring Sequoyah Cherokee Indian

BELL ROUTE overland water route CHATTANOOGA AREA Cabin Starting from Fort Cass on October Birthplace Cherokee i Audubon Acres/Spring Frog Cabin 75 40 p 11, 1838, John Bell of the Treaty Museum Van Buren ip Cemetery s Party leads 660 Cherokee, ending Blythe Ferry Junaluska Memorial 40 is Brown’s Ferry Tavern Site Fort s Ar s at present-day Evansville, . and Museum ka i Chattanooga Regional History Museum Lindsay ns 55 a M John Ross House Hair Calhoun TAHLEQUAH AREA Fort Smith s River ARKANSAS Bell Fort Delaney Ross's Landing Conrad Fort Coffee National Historic Site Russellville Route Cabin Charleston George M. Vann’s Plantation (see list above) Hiw Fort Smith Wynne Chattanooga assee R Illinois Campground Lake Dardanelle State Park W Murphy Village Creek 24 (see nearby list) o lf Park Hill Mission Cemetery t Fort Butler State Park Tennessee River Museum Pulaski e Cadron Settlement Park v Cherokee County Ross Cemetery C e Memphis r r Historical Museum Red Clay State Historic Area TAHLEQUAH, OKLAHOMA The Cherokee National Council 40 Waterloo Landing Drane Route r designates Tahlequah as the overland water route e iv Chief Vann House Historic Site capital of the Cherokee Nation 55 R

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OKLAHOMA k e T k e (see nearby list) State Historic Site a WATER DETACHMENTS n GEORGIA n n Deas-Whiteley Route e s Cherokee removals from Ross’s Landing ss a overland water route ee s and Fort Cass include four water route

Little River Canyon 530 detachments that prove to be punishing Guntersville Rive for the Indians: 3,103 depart; 2,273 arrive National Preserve Rome r Water FORT PAYNE AREA at Mrs. Webber’s Plantation (near present- 85 Route Andrew Ross Home / day Stilwell), Fort Coffee, Lee’s Creek (near Home Arkansas Post Stilwell), and Illinois Campground (near Fort Payne Cabin Site ALABAMA Willstown Mission Cemetery National Tahlequah). 75 Memorial Cedar Town Encampment

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Learn more about the 1838-1839 Trail of Tears: http://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears Cherokee familes were removed from their homes http://www.nps.gov/trte/planyourvisit/maps.htm by American soldiers. These links can also be found at www.firstpresbyterian.org