Trail of Broken Promises

Trail of Broken Promises
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It may have been the greatest injustice of all.<br><br>A nation was uprooted.<br><br>A nation was ripped apart from its ancestral lands with its peoples&#39; feet pointed west. So many died along the way.<br><br>The Five Civilized Tribes &ndash; the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole &ndash; rose to power on the land of their fathers, atop great smoky mountains, deep within vast timbered forests, lost among the mangroves, palmettos, and rivers of grass.<br><br>They were strong and proud &ndash; hunters who had become farmers. Many fine plantations were firmly planted on the land they called home, and slaves picked their cotton in the fields. They had achieved self-government and prospered. <br><br>But civilization rolled selfishly into their nation.<br>Treaties were passed, signed, and ignored.<br>Promises were made and broken, sometimes just forgotten.<br><br>The removal of the tribes from their homeland in the Southeast to Indian Territory takes on a new dimension as author Caleb Pirtle relates to a culture that existed before the Europeans set foot on American soil.<br><br>The people suffered greatly from this exodus &ndash; driven like cattle herds across frozen ground and icy rivers, families separated, children and the old ones dying &ndash; as they struggled down a path that would forever be known as &quot;The Trail Where They Cried.&quot;<br>They were victimized by America&#39;s &quot;Indian Policy.&quot;<br><br>It was a grave mistake.<br><br>Trail of Broken Promises was written for the casual historian searching for an emotional overview of a dark era in America&#39;s past. Developed for the traveler, the book contains numerous photographs depicting the heritage and culture of the Five Civilized Tribes, as well as historical traces &ndash; homes, council houses, prisons, and forts &ndash; of their early days in Oklahoma.

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Caleb Pirtle III. Trail of Broken Promises

Prologue

Part I: Vanguard to the West

Chapter 1: The Homes of Their Fathers

Chapter 2: Out of the Fog

Chapter 3: Keepers of the Swamplands

Chapter 4: Hunters of the Southern Woodlands

Chapter 5: The Rebellious Ones

Chapter 6: Battle With the Devil

Chapter 7: Play Ball!

Chapter 8: Cures From the Mother Earth

Chapter 9: Brooms and Black Feathers

Part II: The Proud and the Dispossessed

Chapter 10: The Coming Storm

Chapter 11: Land of Lost Souls

Chapter 12: An Eye for An Eye

Chapter 13: A Gathering of Warriors

Chapter 14: The Magic of the “Talking Leaves”

Chapter 15: Digging for Shade

Chapter 16: Pocahontas of the Indian Territory

Part III: The Homeland Lost

Chapter 17: The Betrayed

Chapter 18: The Law That Broke Hearts

Chapter 19: A People Robbed of Their Rights

Chapter 20: Creeks Set the Law Straight

Chapter 21: The Land --“Our Life and Breath”

Chapter 22: We Are Not Strangers

Chapter 23: A Losing Battle

Chapter 24: Ashes in the Dust and Sand

Part IV: Wailing in the Wind

Chapter 25: The Exodus

Chapter 26: Smallpox and Damaged Pork

Chapter 27: The Last Stragglers

Part V: Land of Promise

Chapter 28: An Awakening Frontier

Chapter 29: Finding a New Home

Chapter 30: The Chain of Defense

Chapter 31: Paying the Debts

Chapter 32: From Out of the Swamps

Chapter 33: A Thorn of War

Chapter 34: A Peace in Mourning

Chapter 35: A Woeful State of Barbarism

Chapter 36: Cherokee Journey to the Hanging Tree

Part VI: Blackboards and Bibles

Chapter 37: Lessons from the Black Coats

Chapter 38: The Ancient Lessons

Chapter 39: A Lack of Laborers

Chapter 40: Food for the Table

Chapter 41: To Pray for the Heathen

Part VII: Quenching the Thirst for Learning

Chapter 42: Missions on the Prairie

Chapter 43: From Buckskin to Blue Jeans

Part VIII: A Lust for Gold

Chapter 44: The Mad Rush for Riches

Chapter 45: Indians on the Gold Trail

Chapter 46: High Hopes and Hard Nights

Chapter 47: Gold in Otter Creek

Epilogue

Bibliography

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THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES – the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole – rose to power on the land of their fathers, atop great smoky mountains, deep within vast timbered forests, lost among the mangroves, palmettos, and rivers of grass.

They were strong and proud, hunters who had become farmers. Many fine plantations were firmly planted on the land they called home, and slaves picked their cotton in the fields.

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The chain of friendship was made with cheap metal, and even cheaper words. It had been molded with ambition and linked with lies.

Congress, in 1789, was still holding fast to the treaty, promising that “the utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their land and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars.” Congress had not yet felt the growing pains of a nation, stuffed with too many people and even more greed. The Chickamaugans loomed as its only stumbling block in the way of peace. These renegade Cherokees had been the last holdouts, the last warriors to defy American rule. But even they buckled under the military muscle of a new nation, leaving fifty of their braves dead and scalped upon the highland slopes of North Georgia and Tennessee. At the 1794 conference in Telico, Little Turkey, who had followed Old Tassel to the helm of the Cherokees, rose, proud that his people would now be able “to live so that we might have gray hairs in our head.” He stood and said, “Our tears are wiped away, and we rejoice in the prospect of our future welfare, under the protection of Congress.”

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