Trail of Tears marker on Mud Island emerges from shadow of city’s bicentennial
A runner passes a Trail of Tears historical marker in Mud Island’s Greenbelt Park on Wednesday, Jan. 15. The marker, dedicated in November, tells the story of how Cherokee people were moved from their homelands after the passing of the Indian Removal Act. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian)
The marker unveiled late last year offers a more detailed view of the 1830s relocation of five southwest Native American groups by treaty and by force. Most of those groups used a route that took them through Memphis, to the river's edge and west to exile.
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