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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.
Hamburg Hill is a 1-mile segment of the Trail Of Tears National Historic Trail in Illinois. This preserved segment of the ...
Click through this gallery and find out what happened on the Trail of Tears.
Uncover the chilling truth of the 1830s forced removal of Native American tribes from their ancestral lands. Witness their resilience, resistance, and the tragic cost of this dark chapter in American ...
A new book authored by members of the Hickman County Historical Society tells a detailed history of the area’s place along ...
Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. This picture, The Trail of Tears, was painted by Robert Lindneux in 1942. It commemorates the suffering of the Cherokee people under forced removal.
Trail of Tears: The Hymn was filmed in Prairie Grove on April 18. Filmmakers said it was important to film in Arkansas.
Will we look back on this era as we do the Trail of Tears, internment camps or Jim Crow — with shame and disbelief that people let it happen? History won’t just record Trump’s deeds.
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 ...