We're all taught about the First Thanksgiving between the English colonists and the Native Americans. But there's much more to the story. In Georgia, the Cherokees lived in a modern society at New Echota. But their time was cut short because of the Trail of Tears. If it weren't for one man, things might have turned out differently.

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