5. The Land Grab

This Land

Crooked Media

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The geography of this country was reshaped in the late 1800s and depending on who tells it, it's either a story of good intentions...or one of outright theft.

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0:00.0	John Gowiesk with Outon, John Ross.
0:08.2	John Ross is many things.
0:10.0	A translator, a historian, a former chief of United
0:13.3	Katooband of Cherokee Indians.
0:15.6	He's also a fluent Cherokee speaker.
0:18.4	It's his first language.
0:20.6	John grew up on his family's land near Greasy, Oklahoma.
0:24.2	Once out of the day this spring, he took me there.
0:27.4	Oh no.
0:28.8	And the Georgia, if we suspect, there used to be a field.
0:31.9	There was no tree here.
0:33.9	Back then, they were just all grassland.
0:37.6	This is where my grandpa used to farm here
0:42.0	and planted corn.
0:45.2	But this is where we grew up.
0:50.7	John spoke to me in Cherokee, but I asked him to translate
0:53.7	his words into English so you could understand.
0:57.0	John is going to help tell this chapter of our story.
1:00.0	It's about how Cherokee land was stolen,
1:02.3	acre by acre.
1:04.5	Fittingly, the story starts with the land itself.
1:08.1	Oh, no.
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