How did the trail of tears scar or affect most native americans?

The Native Americans were forced to leave their home and were promised land passed the Mississippi River and a lot of them died along the way.

This concept of fate became the new meaning of "ming." so the idea of "tian ming," the mandate of heaven, was first used by the kings of the  zhou dynasty,  who  justified their overthrow of the shang by saying that heaven had punished the shang for immorality and transferred its favor to the  zhou.