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The Removal, Cave Springs, Milepost 308
Transcript
Hello. My name is LaDonna Brown. I am the tribal anthropologist at the Chickasaw Nation.
I really can't imagine what my ancestors had to go through whenever the concept of removal came to them through the federal agents. I can't imagine being ripped from my home. I can't imagine being taken from the land that we believed that God had given to us. I can't imagine, um, having to leave the land of my ancestors, the places where my ancestors were buried because burials are very, very important to us. All of the things that we know as our medicine plants, the animals that we knew that were always so plentiful—we didn't know what it was going to be like in Indian Territory and it definitely did not look like our homelands there in that area.
Um, and so, it's just very hard to even try to begin to grasp the concept of removal.
Description
Speaker: LaDonna Brown, Tribal Anthropologist at the Chickasaw Nation
Duration
1 minute, 5 seconds
Credit
NPS
Date Created
06/17/2016
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