Cherokee removal / Ambrose Lane.

Talk on the events which lead to the "Trail of Tears," when the Cherokee were taken from ancestral lands in Georgia and moved to a designated territory in Oklahoma. Lane begins by reading from the writing of Count de Buffont, which reflects the racial prejudice of the early 1800's that allowed for the Cherokee genocide. During the forced march across the country, the Cherokee died from starvation and exposure. The Cherokee had adopted Euramerican material culture, but that assimilation did not end white desire for their land or to move them West of the Mississippi River. Andrew Jackson ignored Supreme Court rulings which protected the Cherokee, forcing their brutal removal.|CHEROKEE REMOVAL / Ambrose Lane. - Talk on the events which lead to the "Trail of Tears," when the Cherokee were taken from ancestral lands in Georgia and moved to a designated territory in Oklahoma. Lane begins by reading from the writing of Count de Buffont, which reflects the racial prejudice of the early 1800's that allowed for the Cherokee genocide. During the forced march across the country, the Cherokee died from starvation and exposure. The Cherokee had adopted Euramerican material culture, but that assimilation did not end white desire for their land or to move them West of the Mississippi River. Andrew Jackson ignored Supreme Court rulings which protected the Cherokee, forcing their brutal removal. - BROADCAST: KPFK, 11 Nov. 1992.