“Bury My Heart At Wounded Negro”:
It’s nearly impossible to conceive that anyone would choose to live in Oklahoma on purpose. Accordingly, the Cherokee arrived in that flat, dusty, brownish plain of misery at gunpoint in the 1830s after being driven from the East Coast along the notorious “Trail of Tears.”
Slave-owning Cherokees brought their black servants along with them, in many cases forcing them to carry their luggage.
