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Sunday, July 20, 2008 |
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Photo: Dig Adds to Cherokee "Trail of Tears" HistoryThe United States federal government forced about 16,000 Cherokee and hundreds of other Native Americans to abandon their land in North Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama and move to Oklahoma in the late 1830s. Riggs and colleagues are uncovering the remains of farms and homes in the mountains of southwestern North Carolina that the Cherokee left behind. Photograph by James Mooney, courtesy National Anthropological Archives.
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