The Trail of Tears is the shorthand used for the series of forced displacements of more than 60,000 Indigenous people of the five tribes between 1830 and 1850 and extending up through the 1870s.

On the western end of the trail in Tahlequah, Okla., the Cherokee Heritage Center, 21192 S. Keeler Drive, is open December through February, Tuesday through Saturday from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Hamburg Hill is a 1-mile segment of the Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail in Illinois. This preserved segment of the ...

Larry E. Heck WriterNov 01, 2012 The “trail where they cried” is spelled in Cherokee as “Nunahi-duna-dlo-hilu-i.” It is better known in history books as the Trail of Tears.

The Trail of Tears represents the path almost 50,000 Native Americans took on their way to the West, including Cherokees, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Creeks, and Seminoles.

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail passes through the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Tennessee.

Mary Stockwell talked about her book, [The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Tribes], about the removal of the Delaware, Seneca, Shawnee, Ottawa, and Wyandot Native American tribes to ...

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act that led to the Trail of Tears — a death march that forced around 60,000 Indigenous people to leave their homes and move ...

The Trail of Tears began 170 years ago. We should recall it not as an aberration but as a logical outgrowth of an inhumane policy. And we should insist, in its memory, that Indian treaties and ...

Meet the peach that traveled the Trail of Tears and the elders working to save it It’s November, and it’s unseasonably warm as John John Brown, a Muscogee elder, works to replant peach saplings.