“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 ...

Survivors remade the Cherokee Nation, which exists today as a still-sovereign nation based out of Oklahoma with more than 330,000 citizens across the United States. The Trail of Tears was ...

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 ...

The total death toll along the Trail of Tears isn’t clear ... and Henson suspects that survivors of those dead may not have had time to erect grave markers. After researching the matter for ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...