The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
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American Experience S21E07 · We Shall Remain (3): Trail of Tears
S21E727th April 200955m
The Cherokee would call it Nu-No-Du-Na-Tlo-Hi-Lu, “The Trail Where They Cried.” On May 26, 1838, federal troops forced thousands of Cherokee from their homes in the Southeastern United States, driving them toward Indian Territory in Eastern Oklahoma. More than 4,000 died of disease and starvation along the way.