May 26, 1838, was the start of what we know today as the Trail of Tears, the forced deportation of 16,000 members of the ...

The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 ...

It’s directly across the Arkansas River from North Little Rock, where the land and water routes of the Trail of Tears merged. The Arkansas River runs deep and wide at Little Rock. The city’s ...

This summer bike riders from two Cherokee tribes are retracing the Trail of Tears. Along the way they'll learn about the forced removal of their ancestors. Cyclists from two Cherokee tribes are ...

HULBERT – For the first time, the Oklahoma Trail of Tears Association marked the graves of Cherokee Freedmen who survived the Trail of Tears that occurred in 1838 and 1839. The grave marking ...

Trail of Tears: The Hymn is a narrative short film on the true story of a Cherokee man who transcribed his grandmother’s hymn into a journal before being forced to walk the Trail of Tears.

The Trail of Tears Remembrance Committee is working with Native groups to honor people who passed through Steelville during their forced removal from their ancestral homes in the East by the U.S ...