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“The Trail of Tears” “The Trail of Tears” is oil on canvas painted by Jerome Tiger, a full blooded Creek/Seminole Indian. In the painting, Tiger conveys with dignity and restraint one of the darkest hours of his Native American people. In 1830, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act to free more eastern land for white settlement. This act allowed President Andrew Jackson to forcibly remove the eastern American Indian tribes to land west of the Mississippi River. Within ten years, the United States government had uprooted more than 70,000 American Indians and moved them into Oklahoma Indian Territory, now the state of Oklahoma. The long Journey that was filled with the most extreme suffering and hardship caused the deaths of tens of thousand of American Indians. In “The Trail of Tears” tiger portrays this mass exodus from the eastern United States, and the hardships associated with it through very subt