You quote a government source on the deaths cause by said government?<p>&quot;And the only source for deaths on the trail of tears is the US government&quot;<p>No, they are not the only source.  &quot;Cherokee Population Losses during the Trail of Tears: A New Perspective and a New Estimate&quot; gives the loses as double.  Not counting the subsequent increase in loses where they ended up.<p>I doubt we would take German official&#x27;s word at numbers during WWII, so I&#x27;m not sure why the US&#x27;s word is valid in this instance.  The US couldn&#x27;t even keep the land ownership and payments straight for the tribes and lost a massive lawsuit because of it.