Trail+of+Tears+ChrissyE09

My name is Kala. I am a young Cherokee Indian child. I have a hard time understanding why we are moving away from of home, but my mother says that it is because a wicked man is making us go. I have a feeling that it is because of the shinny stuff that we are finging on our land. The white men call it gold and really want it, but to us it has no meaning. I remember the day that they cam for us we had a few minutes to gather our belongings and then we had to leave. We were all petrified even the Chief. We can't come back home either and I'm going to miss living there. These mean men are leading us to a place that they call the Indian territory. I don't know where it is, but I know that it is very far away. Everyone in our tribe is scared and most are crying or mad. Our Chief tells us that what they are doing to us is against our rights and there will be justice for us in time to come, but these white men are big and strong and have long weapons that can kill some one from very far away. I'm afraid for my younger brother. He is so young and the jouney is so long, I don't know how he will live. I love him so much and I can't bear to see die. I wish that we could all go home, but if we try we will be killed. All of us is so afraid for our lives already. My mother even gets scared when the white men come around, and she is the toughest person I know besides our chief. There are many others that are leaving with us. I can see our people out on the trail as far as I can see. If we can't go home I can only hope that our life will be as good as it was in our new home that the scary white men call the Indian territory.