When the
Cherokee were forcibly resettled in the territory of Oklahoma after the Trail of Tears, their
nation faced a period of extreme turmoil. Major Ridge, his son, and other Cherokee signers of
the Treaty of New Echota were blamed for the deaths of the 4,000 Cherokee that perished on the
Trail of Tears. They were executed by their tribesmen under the Cherokee Blood Law. What
followed was a wave of power struggles...
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