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What does Trail of Tears mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (historical) The route followed by American Indians moved from their homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi river by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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To mark the 150th anniversary, eight Irish people retraced the Trail of Tears, and the donation was publicly commemorated by President Mary Robinson.
It sounds like a great mixture of old and new Trail of Tears.
I have students from Eugene and Springfield, who were not taught about the Oregon Trail of Tears.
Four short films will be screened daily, including one about the Choctaw code talkers of World War I and a Trail of Tears documentary The Long Walk.
I learned that it is the beginning of the Trail of Tears from where the Cherokee and Creek people were driven out to reservations in Oklahoma by the colonists who were taking up the land.
The Trail of Tears did not really end in Oklahoma.

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