The Trail of Tears: The Seminoles strike back — Mistakes Were Made
4 min readJun 20, 2021
In the 1830s, 125,000 Native Americans lived on millions of acres of land in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida. Their ancestors cultivated and occupied the land for generations.
White Americans feared and resented the Native Americans they encountered. Though the Native Americans occupied the land first, to the whites they were…