Trail of Tears & Princess Morning Star

Cherokee people were shamefully coerced into relocation by the Pale Nation's power.

Trail Of Tears
A once proud people were shamefully coerced into relocation by the Pale Nation's power, voracity and fears.
By pony or walking the wagon ruts on hard rock roads Cherokees, old and young alike, died upon the trail of tears.

Riding the white man's horse of broken promises, this Indian civilization was devastated, forever to our shame.
The spirited Cherokees, once a strong, proud nation became indigent, emaciated wanderers scattered among rain.
Dennis King

Princess Morning Star of Time Long Ago And Places Afar
Princess Morning Star, of Cherokee Nation, lived bravery in the valley of a Great Smoky Mountain.
Here, one with nature, one with the land, independent Indian freedoms, spirit and hope stood their last stand.

Upon green ridges tall hardwoods grew. By God's own hand a place where a true Indian life could hope to renew.
Free spirited, the Princess roamed the wilderness with wondrous birds and animals sharing her joys and bliss.

Briefly, life was marvelously free. Total rapture cascading like clear, cool streams tumbling down to the sea.
She roamed the hills and valleys, shrouded by an inner peace. Princess Morning Star's joy never seeming to cease.

Her wisdom was honed and forged into steel by the guidance of seldom seen ancient rites.
Always learning from the spirits flowing in from warm and tepid wigwam days and clear, cool starlit nights.

Indian tom-toms and drums began to pound out their exotic tempo and beat….
Her body swayed to a rhythm of captured actions providing special visions within the heat.

Attuned to drum beat, stories ran bold of Cherokee honor, culture and age-old wisdom of the Old One's fears.
Within a golden glow of bonfire light, her dance told of life and liberation before humiliation on the trail of tears.

Princess Morning Star of time long ago and places off so far.
Now wanders the very heavens…. dancing forever from star to shining star.

Dennis King