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Name _____________________________________ Date ______________
Look at the four routes shown on the map and describe each of them in the correct box below. Use what you know and the story to describe the physical features of the land, the natural resources the Native Americans used, and how they traveled.
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June 6-19, 1838. The first group traveled the river trail to Fort Coffee. Low water forced them to travel overland from Arkansas.
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September 28, 1838 - January 17, 1839. This route has only recently been confirmed by historians.
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October 11, 1838 - January 7, 1839. This group signed the Treaty of New Echota and traveled on a different route overland, perhaps to avoid problems with other Cherokees angry because they lost their land under the treaty.
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October 23, 1838 - March 24, 1839. This group had to camp for a month by Missouri's Gasconade River because they were too ill to travel.
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Two Nations, One People: The Cherokee, by Geofrfey Norman
National Geographic, May, 1995, pages 72-97
Return to the The Trail on Which They Wept lesson.
