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 Ode to Nancy Jane Martindale
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A Cherokee speaks secrets
from her final resting place
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Nancy Jane, to me so dear

Many moons ago you lived, I hear.

The gloves you wore.... a little pair,

Were left for me with a lock of hair.

In our family bible.... Psalm thirty-five

I found your hands. They’re alive.... Alive!

So carefully cut from paper with knife

They speak of you, my people, your life.

Around the thumb and fingers and wrist,

The paper you cut and wrote a list.

Not a style that is so easily read,

But in "skin language" for us you said

Your Indian mother was Cherokee.

You speak in truth. I see.... I see!

Many things with Little Hands you tell

So honor our family I’ll try to do well.

The way of the Cherokee for me was lost

In the passing of many moons, many frosts.

You tell about walking the Trail of Tears

With our family those dreadful years.

Written above Psalm 35, in my search I came

To find W. H. Haynes, a white man's name.


A reference to enemies who raise their hand

Against people who lived in peace in the land.

Long I had searched records in white man’s lands,

Only to find what I needed was in your Little Hands,

How many you were and your status in life,

Your brothers, sisters, father, his wife.

The record you left me is a valuable treasure

So dear to my heart, has brought me much pleasure.

You left us a great legacy with your Little Hand

And I pass it on to Terri W. Martindale of our band.

To leave it with my daughter, I feel that I must

And praise the Great Spirit, the one I trust.

It surely was He who showed your secrets to me,

And led me to the one who could open them, I see.

I trust your sweet spirit has found eternal rest

With The Great Spirit forever in His Heavenly nest.

 

Timeline

1838
February 15,665 people of the Cherokee Nation memorialize congress protesting the Treaty of New Echola.
March Outraged American citizens throughout the country memorialize congress on behalf of the Cherokee.
April Congress tables memorials protesting Cherokee removal. Federal troops ordered to prepare for roundup.
May Cherokee roundup begins May 23, 1838. Southeast suffers worst drought in recorded history. Tsali escapes roundup and returns to North Carolina.
June First group of Cherokees driven west under Federal guard. Further removal aborted because of drought and "sickly season."
July Over 13,000 Cherokees imprisoned in military stockades awaiting break in drought. Approximately 1500 die in confinement.
August In Aquohee stockade Cherokee chiefs meet in council, reaffirming the sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation. John Ross becomes superintendent of the removal.
September Drought breaks: Cherokee prepare to embark on forced exodus to Indian Territory in Oklahoma. Ross wins additional funds for food and clothing.
October For most Cherokee, the "Trail of Tears" begins.
November Thirteen contingents of Cherokees cross Tennessee, Kentucky and Illinois. First groups reach the Mississippi River, where there crossing is held up by river ice floes.
December Contingent led by Chief Jesse Bushyhead camps near present day Trail of Tears Park. John Ross leaves Cherokee Homeland with last group: carrying the records and laws of the Cherokee Nation. 5000 Cherokees trapped east of the Mississippi by harsh winter; many die.
1839
January First overland contingents arrives at Fort Gibson. Ross party of sick and infirm travel from Kentucky by riverboat.
February Chief Ross's wife, Quati, dies near Little Rock, Arkansas on February 1, 1839.
March Last group headed by Ross, reaches Oklahoma. More than 3000 Cherokee die on Trail of Tears, 1600 in stockades and about the same number en route. 800 more die in 1839 in Oklahoma.
April Cherokees build houses, clear land, plant and begin to rebuild their nation.
May Western Cherokee invite new arrivals to meet to establish a united Cherokee government.
June Old Treaty Part leaders attempt to foil reunification negotiations between Ross and Sequoyah. Treaty Party leaders John Ridge, Major Ridge and Elias Boudinot assassinated.
July Cherokee Act of Union brings together the eastern and western Cherokee Nations on July 12, 1839.
August Stand Watie, Brother of Boudinot, pledges revenge for deaths of party leaders.
September Cherokee constitution adopted on September 6, 1839. Tahlequah established as capital of the Cherokee Nation.

Mounds

Silent winds hold down the tale
Of an ancient yesteryear
Beneath the mounds and forgotten trails
The memories are hidden here
No longer smoke the Calumet
No longer a whistle blows
All are buried here together
With the Arrows and the Bows

So many stories are still held inside
Many we will never learn
The Sacred Fire has long ago died
Never again to burn
No longer to chase the deer
No longer praise the dance
All of it buried here
With the Bonnet and the Lance

Once stood majestic in the thick of a forest
a kingdom in their time
But time has crept and now they rest
In cities of yours and mine
No longer feasts or games
All buried here within the mound
Though ancient still sustain