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JonathanRackham

(1,604 posts)
Sat Sep 17, 2016, 03:41 AM Sep 2016

Government Damages Trail of Tears

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/apnewsbreak-docs-detail-government-damage-trail-tears-42154905

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trail_of_Tears


The U.S. Forest Service has ripped up a portion of the Trail of Tears in the Appalachian Mountains, reopening wounds for Native Americans who consider sacred the land where thousands of their ancestors died during their forced migration westward.

The man-made trenches and berms were discovered last summer but the details about how it happened and those responsible hadn't been publicly identified. In documents obtained recently by The Associated Press, the Forest Service acknowledged that an employee approved construction along a ?-mile section of the trail in eastern Tennessee without authorization, an embarrassing blunder for an agency that was supposed to be protecting the trail for future generations.
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