“Somebody must explain the 4,000 silent graves that mark the western trail of the Cherokees. I wish I could forget it all, but the picture of 645 wagons slowly moving over the frozen ground with the suffering Indians still lingers in my memory.”(John G Burnett) This statement is true, by the mostly accurate deaths on the Tail of Tears. What I have learned and have known from watch sources like History Channel or studying the subject in American history class, the Trail of tears are greatly gruesome. From the mistreatment, the hunger, and diseases like pneumonia would take the lives of Native American Indians.
