Where do the Cherokee Indians live?
The Cherokees are original residents of the American southeast region, particularly Georgia, North and South Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Most Cherokees were forced to move to Oklahoma in the 1800’s along the Trail of Tears. Descendants of the Cherokee Indians who survived this death march still live in Oklahoma today. Some Cherokees escaped the Trail of Tears by hiding in the Appalachian hills or taking shelter with sympathetic white neighbours. The descendants of these people live scattered throughout the original Cherokee Indian homelands. • What was the Cherokee Trail of Tears? Trail of Tears was the Cherokee name for what the Americans called Indian Removal. During the 1800’s, the US government created an “Indian Territory” in Oklahoma and sent all the eastern Native American tribes to live there. The US government had witnessed what a true democracy was by the laws of the Cherokee way of life, everyone had, no-one went without anything. Before anyone could catch w
