Chieftain members to screen ‘Trail of Tears | Hometown Headline
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Members of the board and staff of the Chieftains Museum/Major Ridge Home will attend a special screening today at the Georgia Public Broadcasting headquarters in downtown Atlanta of the PBS documentary, “Trail of Tears,” an episode in the PBS “American Experience” series on Native Americans. Titled “We Shall Remain,” the series will debut April 13 on PBS, and the “Trail of Tears” episode, the third in the series, will air nationally April 27.

“We are proud to participate in an event that will provide national recognition for Major Ridge, and therefore Rome Georgia,” said Marsha Welch, president of the Chieftains Museum Board of Directors. “Our staff and board members recognize the significance of this screening and the film series.”

Welch said the central focus of this episode will be the story of Cherokee leader Major Ridge, who lived where the museum now sits on Riverside Parkway.

Ridge signed the Treaty of New Echota, which precipitated the Cherokee removal and the “Trail of Tears,” the journey to Oklahoma
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