Cathy asked " Does anyone know if there is a list of the people forced to march?" Easy answer: "no, there is no complete roster of names". We have been lucky to located a few of the Cherokee Removal rosters kept by the leaders of the groups which contain names (I believe only seven of eleven groups), but I don't know about the other tribes. In any event- there is no "complete list" as you had asked about. There were not just "one Removal group per tribe", as many people assume today! The people were broken into smaller groups because of the lessons learned in the first groups who lost so many from starvation! They tried to keep the later groups as small as was feasible and traveled different routes, hoping that they could purchase provisions from the farmers and merchants along the way. They believed by doing this they would get fresh food, not the wormy grain and spoiled meat that killed a number of our people, but "greed" and "compassion" are seldom bedfellows -- they STILL got the same food! There were lists of how many were provisioned during the removal, because the leaders of the groups were allowed a specific amount for each person. Those records do not contain names -- only "numbers", because they were much too busy just trying to survive to worry about recording names. Jerri Chasteen