{"id":5355,"date":"2026-06-06T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2025-12-13T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:09:26","slug":"cherokees-started-on-the-trail-of-tears-in-1838","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5355","title":{"rendered":"Cherokees Started on the \u201cTrail of Tears\u201d in 1838"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cherokees started on the \u201cTrail of Tears\u201d in 1838<\/strong>. Over 16,000 Native Americans were forcibly removed from their long-held homelands in Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama. They had to move to what is today Oklahoma. Many died from starvation and exposure to the elements. Children could read <em>The Trail of Tears<\/em> by Dennis Brindel Fradin. They could also learn more at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.americaslibrary.gov\/es\/ky\/es_ky_powwow_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trail of Tears<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cherokees started on the \u201cTrail of Tears\u201d in 1838. Over 16,000 Native Americans were forcibly removed from their long-held homelands in Georgia, Tennessee, and Alabama. They had to move to what is today Oklahoma. Many died from starvation and exposure to the elements. Children could read The Trail of Tears by Dennis Brindel Fradin. They <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=5355' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5605,127,5603,126],"class_list":["post-5355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-5605","tag-cherokees","tag-june-6","tag-trail-of-tears","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22483,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions\/22483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}