"We are now about to take our leave and kind farewell to our native land, the country that Great Spirit gave our Fathers, we are on the eve of leaving that country that gave us birth… it is with sorrow we are forced by the white man to quit the scenes of our childhood…we bid farewell to it and all we hold dear." This is the way that Cherokee Vice Chief Charles Hicks described, …showed first 75 words of 1320 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1320 total…documentary made me feel somewhat ashamed of our ancestors. How could they have treated a fellow man the way they did? What gave them the right to decide that the Cherokee people would not mind being displaced from their homeland? Granted I didn’t live in that time, so I don’t have a clear understanding of the actual happenings, but I was definitely convinced by the documentary of how things actually were. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**