Made with the blood and tears of our native american forefathers.
just reading stuff about that.
What was done to those people is, in fairness, unbelievably fucked.
Andrew Jackson told all the Cherokee people to get out of the Cherokee Nation, THAT HAD JUST BEEN AGREED UPON A FEW YEAR PREVIOUSLY otherwise they will all be arrested.
This was literally the first thing he did in office. Move the Cherokee people off their own land that they just agreed to.
When some of them told him to fuck off, they went in, killed a load of them, and force marched the rest, in winter, over the mountains towards the Mississippi. Huge numbers of them died on this forced march. The whites along the way, the same whites who the Cherokee helped set up their farms and so on, gouged them for what they could get as they starved and froze to death.
Every stop they made they stared digging holes to drop the bodies into.
Fuck Andrew Jackson.