-
For a second I thought I was in the wrong place.
-
A flower?
-
It's a cherokee rose.
-
The story is that when american soldiers
-
were moving Indians off their land on the trail of tears,
-
the cherokee mothers were grieving and crying so much
-
'cause they were losing their little ones along the way
-
from exposure and disease,
-
and starvation.
-
A lot of them just disappeared.
-
So the elders, they said a prayer;
-
asked for a sign to uplift the mothers' spirits,