Movie

The Trail Of Tears: Cherokee Legacy

2006★ 4.5 · 21h 55mDocumentaryHistory

Overview

This two-hour documentary explores one of the great historical tragedies of America's aboriginal people. In 1830, eager to gain access to lands inhabited by Native Americans, President Andrew Jackson enacted the Indian Removal Act which forced the Cherokee Nation to leave their homeland and to relocate into uncharted territory. Many of these forced settlers suffered from exposure, disease, and starvation, and upon arriving in Indian Territory, they arrived with no past and no future.

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Cast

James Earl Jones
as Narrator

Wes Studi
as Himself

Wilma Mankiller
as Herself