“The Trail of Tears Association helps to mark the Trial of Tears from the east to Oklahoma. Once they (survivors) got to Indian Territory they went to supply depots that were immediately across ...

The great-great grandsons and granddaughters of the survivors of the Long Walk were there to pay homage, to mourn the dead and celebrate the tribe's ultimate survival. Ragged queues of defeated ...

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 history of the Pala Band of Mission Indians begins with an event so traumatic that it is known as the Cupeño Trail of Tears ... One of the survivors of the forced march was Margarita Britten.

“These are their ancestors that are survivors, or carry on the memory ... according to the Trail of Tears Association, a nonprofit that works to preserve the historic trail and promote awareness.

Te-lah-nay and her sister were removed from their home along the Tennessee River in the 1830s as part of the Trail of Tears, a forced migration of some 60,000 Native Americans to designated ...

He studied the Trail of Tears in detail, even reading firsthand accounts written by survivors. But the names of his own ancestors, who had endured the ordeal, had been lost. And at first ...

One of the last known survivors of the Trail of Tears was one of Libby Neugin’s great grandmothers, Rebecca Neugin. On this year’s ride, Neugin will be visiting the ancestral homeland of her ...

It's one of the darkest chapters in American history: how the Cherokee Indians fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court for the right to remain on their homelands in the Southern Appalachians ...

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 ...