A Chronicle, 1830-1849
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In 1987, Congress designated the Trail of Tears as a
National Historic Trail. The result has been a good deal of effort on the part of
the National Park Service and interest on the local and regional levels--especially
in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, and Oklahoma--in locating and marking
historic sites related primarily to Indian removal. To date, because of the language
of the legislation, most emphasis has been on removal routes taken by the Cherokees,
though some work has been done on locating the routes of the Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws,
and Seminoles.
Arkansas is the pivotal state in the story of Indian
removal, for all parties of these tribal people who removed from the Southeast under
terms of American Indian removal policy passed through this state as they drew near
the western end of their journey. Because travel routes within Arkansas were very
limited, groups from all tribes moved along the same basic routes once they entered
the state.
The chronicle presented below provides information to
help expand the research related to removal routes of all the tribes. It reprints
contemporary news reports of Indian removal through Arkansas. Its purpose is to
provide contemporary information from sources that are widely scattered and not
as easily accessible as national and state archival materials. Though its focus
is on the five tribes listed above, removal of other tribes to Indian Territory
(the Senecas for instance) had an economic impact on Arkansas. Thus the chronicle
includes information related to those removals as well. Because most routes taken
by removal parties passed by or through Little Rock, the bulk of the chronicle consists
of items from the Arkansas Gazette and the Arkansas Advocate at Little
Rock. Additional items were retrieved from the Batesville News and the Helena
Constitutional Journal. The chronicle will be expanded occasionally as other
information sources are located and searched, including newspapers at Memphis, Vicksburg,
Natchez, and other locations.
A NOTE TO THE USER. Entries are arranged by Tribe and Date. The index lists the
dates for entries relating to each tribe. A click on the date will take you to
that entry.
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