 | Family Stories from the Trail of Tears (taken from the Indian-Pioneer
History Collection, Grant Foreman, editor) |  |
2. Alexander, Jobe
May 3, 1938
Jesse S. Bell-Investigator
Indian-Pioneer History,
S-149
Interview with Jobe Alexander
Proctor, Oklahoma
I am a full blood Cherokee Indian born in Going-Lake District, Indian Territory, Cherokee Nation, March 10, 1854, and raised there. My father, Dun-Ev-Nall Alexander was born in Georgia and was driven West during the immigration. All the Indians were gathered up or rounded up by Federal soldiers and put in pens and guarded until ready for the move; they were gathered up by the "Clans" and left their gardens and crops, and some of the old homes of the Cherokee are still standing in Georgia.
The last group that was rounded up revolted; the leader gave the signal to revolt and all turned on the guards and took their guns away and murdered the guards and they made for hide aways in the mountains. That is why the Indians are back in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. They never were found or hunted much.
| Family Stories from the Trail of Tears (taken from the Indian-Pioneer
History Collection, Grant Foreman, editor) | |