Trail of Tears

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英文释义

专有名词
  1. 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. historical

词形变化

the Trail of Tears canonical

词源

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.
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