{"id":118,"date":"2023-05-27T01:38:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2024-07-08T02:33:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T01:33:31","slug":"trail-of-tears-1st-person-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/trail-of-tears-1st-person-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyewitness to the Trail of Tears: Generational Trauma &#8211; Margaret McGuire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eyewitness to the Trail of Tears: Generational Trauma\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GFvtCEEIlI0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Trail of Tears&#8221; was the forced relocation and removal of Native American tribes from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. During this brutal time in our history, thousands of Cherokee were torn away from their homes and died along the way due to the harsh conditions imposed upon them by the US government. This video will uncover the shocking truth behind this &#8220;ethnic cleansing&#8221; and reveal the devastating <a href=\"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/31\/enlightenment-thinkers-and-their-impact-on-american-revolution\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"341\">impact it had on Native American<\/a> communities. Get ready to take a journey into the past and uncover a heartbreaking side of <a href=\"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/26\/french-and-indian-war-the-first-world-war\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"273\">US history<\/a> that many people don&#8217;t know about or want to talk about- The Trail of Tears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Trail of Tears&#8221; was the forced relocation and removal of Native American tribes from their ancestral homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. During this brutal time in our history, thousands of Cherokee were torn away from their homes and died along the way due to the harsh conditions imposed &#8230; <a title=\"Eyewitness to the Trail of Tears: Generational Trauma &#8211; Margaret McGuire\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/trail-of-tears-1st-person-history\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Eyewitness to the Trail of Tears: Generational Trauma &#8211; Margaret McGuire\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ti_tpc_template_sync":false,"_ti_tpc_template_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[103,155,7,154,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mister-history.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}