Cherokee Trail of Tears

The following is a quote from a 2018 Tallahassee Democrat article on this cultivar (they say it better than we can at this juncture.) "Grown in the Smoky Mountains by the Cherokee people for generations. It is so named because the beans were carried in the pockets of the Cherokee people as they were marched from the Carolinas to Oklahoma by the Federal Government during the Trail of Tears in 1838-1839. It is estimated that thousands of Native Americans died from exposure along the way. The Trail of Tears beans were thought to have been carried as a symbol of hope and in remembrance of home. The seeds were shared with the seed company Seed Savers Exchange in the 1970s by Dr. John Wyche, who was a seed conservationist, owner of Cole Brothers Circus, a Master Gardener, and a dentist who lived in Hugo, Oklahoma." the article is linked here: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/home-garden/2018/09/27/trail-tears-story-behind-seed/1430884002/