[MD] An American Mythos debunked

[Heather Perella]

     Haven't been able to get to this yet Marsha (today goin' back and forth between this and another project; been away for four days too, so, lots to do), but I do know much about how the government looked for anything to get those people out of there.  That story is twisted.  Something about promised land, rumors of gold, fear - fear is the stench of many westererns - and an outright promise in Congress I believe, but the president went and did his own thing.  I can't remember the details on that last part, please correct me if I'm wrong.      
     Did you know the Seminoles were never pushed west?  There have been other Trail of Tears.  A big one occurred in the north in PA, Ohio, and maybe Illinois were the gov't made them march west.  We know of the marches the western tribes were forced to make to reservations.  We may have all heard of Sitting Bulls escape with many in the tribe into Canada, and the Canadians received them well.  Then, for some reason, the strange land and the missing of the rest of their people, they went back south and entered a reservation, turning themselves in.  The Seminoles are still in the Flordia everglades.  The Cherokee are still in the Great Smokey Mountains, too.


SA 


--- On Mon, 7/7/08, Marsha <marshalz at charter.net> wrote:

> From: Marsha <marshalz at charter.net>
> Subject: [MD] An American Mythos debunked
> To: "MOQ" <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
> Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 2:43 AM
> Here is a documentary about the Trail of Tears.  It
> indicates that the high ideals of the Founding Fathers were
> not all that is stated.  Down the page is the mp3 downloads
> for
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>     Trail of Tears - Part 1
>     Trail of Tears - Part 2
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>     http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/podcast.html   
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> Listen and weep.  
> 
> Greatest country that ever existed?  NOT!   
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