Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western lands. By 1837, the Jackson administration had ...

Orr was connected directly to the Cherokee Nation hierarchy and related by marriage to Sequoyah ... John Benge detachment of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Benge, a Cherokee court judge, led ...

Sequoyah attributes the impulse to help after ... of the broader Cherokee Nation forced off their land onto the Trail of Tears and abused if not killed in federal boarding schools, many in the ...