How does the Trail of Tears affect the U.S. today?

It is easy to
assume that long-ago events dont have much of an impact on our lives today, or that they arent
meaningful, unless affecting us personally, as the previous answer implies. However, modern
Native Americans (Cherokee and otherwise) have a lot to say about how the removal still affects
their lives, nearly 200 years later.

Issues like suicide
and poverty are affecting over a million Native Americans at this very moment €“ a direct result
of decades of failed policies and generations of mistreatment toward the tribes. ( href="http://blog.nativepartnership.org/always-remember-native-history-affects-today/">Murray
Lee)

The Native Tribes lost their families,
their homes, and much of their cultural heritage and traditions when they were forced to
relocate to the West. Imagine what it must be like to be born and raised in thisof loss and
hopelessnessthese feelings of anger and resentment dont just go away in a generation or
two.

The federal government and corporations still readily seize land for
their own purposes (consider the recent href="https://time.com/4548566/dakota-access-pipeline-standing-rock-sioux/">Standing
Rock

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