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 Trail of Tears National Historic Trail is a long-distance route that follows the path the Cherokee nation took during ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s November and it’s unseasonably warm as John John Brown, a Muscogee elder, works to replant peach saplings. “I haven’t had much luck growing them from seed,” he says. The reason, he ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(KTEN) — In memory of the journey that relocated thousands of Native Americans to Oklahoma between 1830 and 1850, the Choctaw Nation is hosting its annual Virtual Trail of Tears Walk. Designed ...

Brown’s peaches aren’t your everyday peaches, they’re heirlooms: direct descendants of peach seeds brought across the continent on the Trail of Tears. Brown calls them “Indian peaches ...