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Portland_Anni

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5. Andrew Jackson who is responsible for the deaths and ...

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Fri Apr 28, 2017, 05:29 PM

Apr 2017

... suffering of the Trail oF Tears, where the Cherokee, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians of the Southeast were forcibly marched west to an exile in Oklahoma. Racism was mainly what that was about.

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