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How the World Was Made: A Cherokee Creation Story
Article by Joshua J. Mark

How the World Was Made: A Cherokee Creation Story

How the World Was Made is a creation story of the Cherokee nation, which, like many such tales of the Native peoples of North America, begins with a world covered by water from which dry land is formed and natural order created by beings...
A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears: John G. Burnett Account
Article by Joshua J. Mark

A Soldier Recalls the Trail of Tears: John G. Burnett Account - A Primary Source Hoax

The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of the "Five Civilized Tribes" – the Choctaw, Seminole, Muscogee Creek, Chickasaw, and Cherokee – between 1831 and 1850, from their ancestral homes in the Southeast USA to "Indian Territory"...
J. R. Giddings' Account of the Dade Massacre of the Second Seminole War
Article by Joshua J. Mark

J. R. Giddings' Account of the Dade Massacre of the Second Seminole War

The Dade Massacre (also given as the Dade Battle, 28 December 1835) was the opening engagement of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842) between Euro-American forces and those of the Seminole, Black Seminole, and runaway slaves who had found...
Representatives of the Five Civilized Tribes
Image by Rob Ferguson, Jr.

Representatives of the Five Civilized Tribes

Representatives of the Five Civilized Tribes: (clockwise from upper left) Sequoyah of the Cherokee, Pushmataha of the Choctaw, Selecta of the Muscogee Creek, Osceola of the Seminole, and a typical Chickasaw warrior. Image and description...
What Life On the Trail of Tears Was Like
Video by Weird History

What Life On the Trail of Tears Was Like

The Trail of Tears, the forced migration of Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole tribe members, and many others, from their ancestral lands in the US Southeast to allowed territory in Oklahoma, resulted in the deaths of over 4,000...
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