how many cherokees were on the trail of tears
Trail of Tears Between 1830 and 1850, the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee people (including mixed-race and black freedmen and slaves who lived among them) were forcibly removed from their traditional lands in the Southeastern United States, and relocated farther west.[4] Those Native Americans who were relocated were forced to march to their destinations by state and local militias.[5] The Cherokee removal in 1838 (the last forced removal east of the Mississippi) was brought on by the discovery of gold near Dahlonega, Georgia in 1828, resulting in the Georgia Gold Rush.[6] Approximately 2,000â€“6,000 of the 16,543 relocated Cherokee perished along the way.[7][8][9][10][11]
Cherokee–American wars In the first phase, lasting 1776â€“1783, the Cherokee also fought as allies of the Kingdom of Great Britain against its rebellious colonies. This first part of this phase, from summer 1776 to summer of 1777, involved the all sections of the entire Cherokee nation, and is often referred to as the "Cherokee War of 1776". At the end of 1776, the only militant Cherokee were those who migrated with Dragging Canoe to the Chickamauga towns, for which they were known to the frontierspeople as the "Chickamauga" or "Chickamauga Cherokee". Dav Weaver whose sons carry the name David Crockett Weaver who lived at the time of fame of old Davy Crockett himself, was affirmed by John Ross at the last Cherokee Council of the Eastern Band of Cherokee while he was a Chief and Chief Thomas Taylor also affirmed that Dav Weaver did not remove from the Chota/Choctaw Territory, the Neshoba Church is still in existence in Citronelle Alabama, the Red Fox Road where the Chocta/Choctaw own their traditional Tribal Lands on land presently held in Trust by the United States Federal Government at the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians Indian Reservation is noticed by the National Park Service/Department of Interior and the Federal Highway Administration today. Carolina existed in this same area prior to Reconstruction - reportedly the land was ceded to the United States similar to the Georgia Cession of in 1802, however, the United States Supreme Court ruled these cessions unconstitutional in Worchester v. Georgia which was decreed on March 5 of 1832. Federal Law and the Supremacy Clause was found to be superior to State's Rights, the Nullification happened the same year on December 10. History then created a fork.