Echoes Along the Frozen Road: The Trail of Tears

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Echoes Along the Frozen Road: The Trail of Tears

Time Machine Diaries

16 minutes 9 seconds

3 months ago

Echoes Along the Frozen Road: The Trail of Tears

Hey There, Let us step into a world torn apart by greed and power. In this episode of Time Machine Diaries, we journey through the Trail of Tears—a thousand-mile march fueled by broken promises and cold indifference. Hear voices from soldiers, settlers, and the Cherokee themselves, revealing the human cost hidden behind textbook dates.

From stockades choked with disease to frozen rivers littered with shallow graves, this story isn’t just history—it’s a warning. Because the same forces that drove Native nations from their lands still whisper today in policies about borders, belonging, and who America claims as “us.”

Brace yourself for heartbreak, truth, and a reckoning with the past that refuses to stay buried.

Books & Audiobooks

Ehle, John. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. Anchor Books, 1988.
Audiobook: Narrated by Robertson Dean, Blackstone Audio, 2004.
Perdue, Theda, and Michael D. Green. The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. Viking, 2007.
Audiobook: Audible Studios, 2014.
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars. Viking Penguin, 2001.
Audiobook: Narrated by Robertson Dean, Blackstone Audio, 2004.
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970.
Audiobook: Narrated by Grover Gardner, Blackstone Audio, 2009.
(Includes background on removals including the Trail of Tears)
Calloway, Colin G. First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History. Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2016.

We Shall Remain: Trail of Tears. Directed by Chris Eyre, PBS American Experience, 2009.
Available at: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/trail-of-tears/
The Trail of Tears: Cherokee Legacy. Directed by Chip Richie, narrated by James Earl Jones, Rich-Heape Films, 2006.
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil and the Presidency. Directed by Carl Byker, PBS, 2008.
America: The Story of Us — Westward Expansion. History Channel, 2010.
(Includes segments on Indian removal and Cherokee displacement)

This Land. Hosted by Rebecca Nagle, Crooked Media, Season 1 (2019).
(Explores Native legal battles, including legacies of removal)
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery – The Trail of Tears & Native Displacement. Teaching Tolerance Podcast, Southern Poverty Law Center, 2020.