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</MYMAILSTATIONERY> CHEROKEE ROSE Legend of the Cherokee Rose (nu na hi du na tlo hi lu I) When gold was found in Georgia, the government forgot its treaties and Drove the Cherokees to Oklahoma. One fourth of them died on the journey West. When the Trail of Tears started in 1838, the mothers of the Cherokee were grieving and crying so much, they were unable to help Their children survive the journey. The elders prayed for a sign that Would lift the mother's spirits to give them strength. God, looking Down from heaven, decided to commemorate the brave Cherokees and so, as The blood of the braves and the tears of the maidens dropped to the Ground, he turned them into stone in the shape of a Cherokee Rose. The Next day a beautiful rose began to grow where each of the mother's tears fell. The rose is white for their tears; a gold center represents the gold taken from Cherokee lands, and seven leaves on each Stem for the seven Cherokee clans. No better symbol exists of the pain And suffering of the "Trail Where They Cried" than the Cherokee Rose The wild Cherokee Rose grows along the route of the Trail of Tears into Eastern Oklahoma today. | </MYMAILSTATIONERY> |
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Next day a beautiful rose began to grow where each of the mother's tears fell. The rose is white for their tears; a gold center represents the gold taken from Cherokee lands, and seven leaves on each Stem for the seven Cherokee clans. No better symbol exists of the pain And suffering of the "Trail Where They Cried" than the Cherokee Rose |
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