Georgia was one of the Cherokee homelands ... It was from this home that many have said ‘the Trail of Tears began.’ The group ...

Nearly two hundred years after the Muscogee Nation was forced to move from the Chattahoochee Valley to Oklahoma on the Trail ...

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 ...

Squatters carved illegal homesteads out of tribal lands while the government of Georgia passed laws stripping Cherokees ... “All went through their own versions of the Trail of Tears,” said Norris.

In 1830, gold was found in the Southern Appalachians and the Georgia gold rush began ... A journey that became known as "the trail of tears." In 1848, gold was discovered in California.