trail of tears

DeLanna Studi, a Cherokee activist and actress, brings her one-woman play “And So We Walked” to Boston this month. The play recounts the journey Studi and her father, Thomas Studie, took when they followed her great-great grandparents’ 900-mile route along the Trail of Tears

The brutal treatment of the Native Americans established that whites could not be expected to be more cordial to blacks. Perhaps inhumanity to outsiders is a consistent element of their culture