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The battle site, Riverbend Park, has a history of human habitation dating back 5,000 years. The Second Seminole War was part of a longer struggle between the U.S. government and Florida's indigenous ...
After traveling 950 miles, the cyclists participating in the Remember the Removal ride retracing the Trails of Tears returned home to Tahlequah on Friday.
DURANT, Okla. (KTEN) — The Choctaw Nation Trail of Tears Bike Team has arrived in Oklahoma after traveling 500 miles through Mississippi, retracing the exact path their ancestors were forced ...
Twelve Cherokee citizens are gearing up for a nearly 1,000-mile bicycle journey that traces the historic Trail of Tears, a route their ancestors were forced to walk nearly two centuries ago.
Twelve Cherokee riders retrace the Northern Route of the Trail of Tears in a powerful act of cultural remembrance. Get to know the 2025 'Remember the Removal' team participating in this historic ...
Whitson's research centers on two Trail of Tears campsites in south-central Missouri, occupied between 1837 and 1839.
From roughly 1830 to 1850, an estimated 60,000 people of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee and Seminole indigenous nations were forcibly relocated to reservations in what is now Oklahoma.
Ike Moore, the president of the Alabama-Tennessee Trail of Tears Corridor, said we have to remember the history. “It’s history,” said Moore. “History, good or bad we need to remember it.
The first Trail of Tears Motorcycle Ride was organized in 1994 with approximately 100 riders participating, and has grown to more that 10,000 riders each year. The ride is held rain or shine.
Missouri has the most miles of the Cherokee Trail of Tears, and Steelville is on its path. Archaeologist Erin Whitson has been working to verify Cherokee encampment sites in town, in the hopes ...
Wes hears the story of his how his ancestor journeyed on the Trail of Tears. Wes hears the story of his how his ancestor journeyed on the Trail of Tears, which was a forced displacement of about ...