Some four thousand died on what became known as the Trail of Tears. During the treaty’s unveiling at the museum, Cherokee Nation ... Mississippi in the decades before the Treaty of New Echota ...

The Trail of Tears commemorates the path that 17 groups of Cherokee, called detachments, traveled by land and water to reach ...

The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.226, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Historic Lands Reacquisition Act, on ...

Three stops along the Georgia section of the Trail of Tears ... Missouri before its final destination in Oklahoma. The many sites tell the story of the Cherokee removal from their land and ...

Joined by residents of the Rez HOPE Gadugi House, an addiction recovery center, in Cherokee, N.C. They explained the ...

Eager for land to raise cotton ... Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western lands.

Explore Americas darkest period President Andrew Jacksons Indian Removal Act of 1830 and the forced removal of the Cherokee Nation ... died during the Trail of Tears arriving in Indian Territory ...

The Department of the Interior opinion affirming the UKB reservation is the Cherokee Nation reservation and that the tribe can take land into ... during the Trail of Tears, and says divisions ...