Over the weekend, President Trump tweeted what appeared to be a joke about the Trail of Tears, the 19th-century removal of Cherokee people from their homelands that killed thousands.
Here & Now‘s Jeremy Hobson gets some historical context from Jace Weaver, a professor of Native American studies at the University of Georgia.
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