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 ...

Known as the Trail of Tears, the removal saw thousands of Cherokees pushed from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Since 1983, the Cherokee Nation ...

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 ...

Two women from Grove and Vinita are part of a 12-cyclist group to ride in Cherokee Nation’s Remember the Removal Bike Ride ...

Twelve Cherokee riders retrace the Northern Route of the Trail of Tears in a powerful act of cultural remembrance. Get to know the 2025 'Remember the Removal' team participating in this historic ...