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Trail of Tears en · PROPN

Etymology

First originated from a Choctaw chief who described the displacement, quoted in the Arkansas Gazette as a "trail of tears and death". Later popularised in reference to the Cherokees, where it is called ᏅᏃᎯ ᏚᎾᏠᏱᎸᎢ (nvnohi dunatloyilvi, literally “the trail where they cried”) in the Cherokee language.

Meanings

1. (historical) The route followed by American Indians moved from their homelands in the southeastern United States to lands west of the Mississippi river by the Indian Removal Act of 1830.

Forms

Deriveds

trail of tears

Translations (9)

es Sendero de lágrimas (historical route) · fr Piste de larmes (historical route) · chr ᏅᏃᎯ ᏚᎾᏠᏱᎸᎢ (historical route) · pt Caminho das Lágrimas (historical route) · pt Trilha das Lágrimas (historical route) · ar دَرْب الدُّمُوع (historical route) · de Pfad der Tränen (historical route) · it Sentiero delle lacrime (historical route) · mus Nene Istemethlketvn (historical route)