click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

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

He helped create the Cherokee Nation’s three-tier system of government ... a journey that resulted in the death of over 4,000 Cherokee. Trail of Tears map courtesy of the National Park Service ...

This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations ... Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people ...