The Trail of Tears | The Frontier

About this episode

This episode focuses on the Trail of Tears and the experiences of the Choctaw people during this dark chapter in American history.

The Trail of Tears is one of the darkest chapters in American history: the forced removal of thousands of Native Americans from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to territories west of the Mississippi River. In this episode we focus specifically on the experiences of the Choctaw people. In this final episode of our 'Frontier' miniseries, we are lucky to welcome Ryan Spring to take us through this story. Ryan is a Cultural Research Associate in the Historic Preservation Department of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Produced by Tomos Delargy. Senior Producer was Freddy Chick. Sign up to History Hit for hundreds of hours of original documentaries, with a new release every week and ad-free podcasts. Sign up at https://www.historyhit.com/subscribe .   All music from Epidemic Sounds. American History Hit is a History Hit podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guest: Ryan Spring

Topics covered

• Trail of Tears
• Choctaw people
• Native American history
• forced removal
• Frontier miniseries

Keywords

• Trail of Tears
• Choctaw
• Native Americans
• forced removal
• Mississippi River

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, History Hit

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