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(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) When Chief John Ross returned home (from Washington D. C.) in 1832, he…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Tensions between the Creek Indians and white settlers became so strained in May…
In 1818, before Alabama became a state, Anne Newport Royall (June 11, 1769 – October 1, 1854) was a traveler in Alabama. After her…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Prior to 1830, it was the general consensus in the United States Congress…
(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…
This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) continued below..... (Indian trading houses were…
Photograph of Chief John Ross - Chief John Ross 1843 Print shows John Ross, half-length portrait, seated, facing front, with right hand on a…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) John G. Burnett was involved in the Indian Removal in 1838-39 as a Private in Captain Abraham…
This story is an excerpt from the book ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Settlement: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 2) French trade from Mobile was principally by…
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Aaron Smith born (1720 – 1776) and his brother, Captain John Carraway Smith fought in the American Revolution and were captured and held at…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8)1 Reverend Daniel S. Burtrick was present in 1838 when the Cherokees were confined to the stockades and…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) To protect the Cherokees from this intrusion (gold miners) the United States stationed…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) When the Cherokees first started moving to the West, leaving their homeland behind, a strange phenomenon occurred…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) The Removal Act Of 1830 With pressure mounting from white settlers to acquire…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Georgia was among the first to grow insistent upon obtaining possession of the…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The roundup of the remaining Native-Americans began in Georgia on May 26, 1838; and continued for over…
Note from Donna Causey: Everything written below is an exact transcription (with possible misspellings) from the From Cahawba Democrat (Cahaba, Alabama) February 1, 1840, so it was…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) Chiefs and Head Men of the Creek or Muscogee Nation, which numbered around…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) In 1817, the U. S. Senate Committee on Public Lands declared that Indian…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Up to the last moment, the Cherokee still believed that the Treaty of Echota would not be…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) During the Seminole War, almost 800 Creek warriors were told that they could remain with their families…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) When the forced removal started in 1838, the United States troops built forts in Alabama and other…
(This story is an Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS Removal: Lost & Forgotten Stories (Volume 7) See more lost and forgotten stories in the book…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Major General Winfield Scott was in charge of 7,000 federal and state troops whose job it was…
SURRENDER OF WEATHERFORD By William Gates Orr,1 of Okolona, Miss. (Transcription from Transactions of the Alabama Historical Society, Volume 2, 1898) Okolona, Miss., Feby. 22, 1893. Mr. H. S. Halbert,…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) By 1836, most of the willing Native-Americans had been removed to the land in the west, and…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) Some men realized that a profit could be made moving the Native-Americans to the Indian Territory. Companies…
(Excerpt from ALABAMA FOOTPRINTS: Banished Volume 8) The removal of the Choctaws in 1831 became a model for other tribes to be moved to…
