Trail Of Tears Quotes

“We cried. The bones and dust of our fathers cried with us.”
― Sharon Ewell Foster, Abraham's Well

“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between the lightening bug and the lightening
~Mark Twain”
― Virginia C. Ferguson, Tula's Path: A Cherokee Trail of Tears Story

“Painting the words of my soul
Across the skies
Under the stones
Leaving a trail for you to see
Calling out loud, “Here I am! Can you see me?”
Anxiously waiting; hoping to be heard
Meaning what I say; every single word
Painting the words of my truth
Beginning with me, and
Ending with you
Leaving a trail for you to see
Loudly painting, “Here I am! Can you see me?”
― N'Zuri Za Austin

“On May 28, 1830, President Andrew Jackson unlawfully signed the Indian Removal Act to force move southeastern peoples from our homelands to the West. We were rounded up with what we could carry. We were forced to leave behind houses, printing presses, stores, cattle, schools, pianos, ceremonial grounds, tribal towns, churches. We witnessed immigrants walking into our homes with their guns, Bibles, household goods and families, taking what had been ours, as we were surrounded by soldiers and driven away like livestock at gunpoint.

There were many trails of tears of tribal nations all over North America of indigenous peoples who were forcibly removed from their homelands by government forces.

The indigenous peoples who are making their way up from the southern hemisphere are a continuation of the Trail of Tears.

May we all find the way home.”
― Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise

“We tried to pretend war wasn't going to happen.

Though they began building their houses all around us

and demanding more.

They started teaching our children their god's story,

A story in which we'd always be slaves.”
― Joy Harjo, An American Sunrise