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Like most people uprooted by the Cherokee Trail of Tears, Eliza Whitmire experienced terrible trauma. In 1830, the U.S. government passed the Indian Removal Act. Eliza was about five years old when more than 3,000 armed militia arrived in Cherokee country in 1838. The militia ...read more