Tuscaloosa: Stopover On The Trail Of Tears

by Robert Register 

Every act of Indian removal in Alabama
occurred while Tuscaloosa was
State Capitol. 

" We pledge never to give... Alabama an opportunity to excuse herself to the world, by any concession on their part, to the schemes she has adopted to expel us from our lands. Her grasping rapacity and tyranny must stand, as a monument to future generations, of wanton violation of laws respected by civil and barbarous nations! " 

Memorial of a Deputation from
the Creek Nation of Indians,
February 3, 1830-
Senate Document 53, 21st Congress.
Washington, DC 

It is said that the Southern Indians called their forced migration to
to Oklahoma