Trail of Tears

estou quase certa que os próprios, da imensidão da terra vermelha do Arizona, não faz a mais pequena ideia do interesse académico-sentimental (e místico ainda) que desperta deste lado do oceano.

"Murder is murder, and somebody must answer. Somebody must explain the streams of blood that flowed in the Indian country in the summer of 1838. Somebody must explain the 4000 silent graves that mark the trail of the Cherokees to their exile. I wish I could forget it all, but the picture of 645 wagons lumbering over the frozen ground with their cargo of suffering humanity still lingers in my memory."
o texto inteiro, aqui: John G. Burnett’s Story of the Removal of the Cherokees.