The Trail of Tears Diary contains interviews which evidence the extraordinary resilience showed by the Native Americans after the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which was known as the Trail of Tears.
They both describe in detail the suffering lived by the natives, as they were forced to unexpectedly leave their homes in a painful and long trip, in which conditions were subhuman and many people were left to die as they could not make it to the end.
But the perspective of the two interviewees in very different. On the first hand, Mary tells the story lived by her grandparents, that she knows from the testimonies of her grandmother (as her grandfather did not survive), but Jobe Alexander lived the removal in his own flesh, so he witnessed the process.
While Mary focuses on describing the suffering of her family and the conditions in which the trip was made. Meanwhile, Jobe explains how some groups of Indian revolted against the federal soldiers and were able to scape and to make their living out of this removal. It is a very different viewpoint of the same fact.
