(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Prior to 1830, it was the general consensus in the United States Congress that the Native-Americans should not be forced to voluntarily move from their homeland. But with pressure mounting from white settlers to acquire Indian Land, Congress began to change their mind and […]
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Tom Hendrix, the gr-gr-grandson of a young teenage Yuchi girl who was forced to travel on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, built a memorial for his great-great-grandmother’s journey to Oklahoma in Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama. Tom’s great-great-grandmother was a member of the Yuchi, a small Alabama tribe. […]
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