Lawmakers Push to Fill Gaps in the Trail of Tears

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › June 30, 2005

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WASHINGTON -- The tale is true. The trail is sometimes false.

History has documented the plight of American Indians evicted from Southern communities in the 1830s and forced on a deadly journey toward Oklahoma. However, official recognition of the path of some 15,000 Cherokees was often based more on guesswork than evidence.

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Lawmakers Push to Fill Gaps in the Trail of Tears

Now the records are starting to catch up with the story. Several lawmakers demanded on Wednesday that the Interior Department do a be...

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