Trail of Tears

Mary Goddard Slagle and Nicole Norton

Fairview and Smokey Mountain
Elementary Schools
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Unit Plan
Mentoring
This project will integrate the use of technology and the topic "  The Trail of Tears".  Eighth grade students will create an interview format to be used for interviewing Native Americans whose ancestors were Cherokees on the Trail of Tears, or whose ancestors hid out in the mountains, or who were granted permission to remain in the mountains of western North Carolina. The students will use multimedia to present this interview.
Click on the links below to view a PowerPoint presentations on the western region of North Carolina and the Cherokee culture fight for land rights.

Desire For A Common Land

Cherokee Artifacts



 
 
 
 

 


 

Judy Cook 

(Yellow Hill Community - Cherokee Indian Reservation)

Vangie Stephens
Trail Marker for Trail of Tears 


Library of Congress/American Memory Collection

Model of Fort Butler 

Photo By Mary Slagle