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The Trail of Tears is the shorthand used for the series ... with frigid temperatures that brought rain and snow. It took three months for more than 15,000 Cherokee to make the 60-mile journey ...
The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 ...
Motorcyclists from across the Southeast gathered on Saturday, Sept. 21, for the 31st annual Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle Ride, a scenic journey across northern Alabama to honor Native ...
The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, designated as such by Congress in 1987, commemorates the forced removal of the Cherokee people from their homelands in the Southeast to present-day ...
This summer bike riders from two Cherokee tribes are retracing the Trail of Tears. Along the way they'll learn about the forced removal of their ancestors. Cyclists from two Cherokee tribes are ...
It’s directly across the Arkansas River from North Little Rock, where the land and water routes of the Trail of Tears merged. The Arkansas River runs deep and wide at Little Rock. The city’s ...
Trail of Tears: The Hymn is a narrative short film on the true story of a Cherokee man who transcribed his grandmother’s hymn into a journal before being forced to walk the Trail of Tears.
The Trail of Tears Remembrance Committee is working with Native groups to honor people who passed through Steelville during their forced removal from their ancestral homes in the East by the U.S ...
Brown's peaches aren't your everyday peaches, they're heirlooms: direct descendants of peach seeds brought across the continent on the Trail of Tears. Brown calls them "Indian peaches" while other ...
The 53rd annual Trail of Tears Art Show will be held in Tahlequah this year. The exhibition is the longest running Native American art show and competition in Oklahoma. Historically, Trail of ...
The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger, disease, and exhaustion on the forced march. Over 4,000 out of 15,000 ...
Brown’s peaches aren’t your everyday peaches, they’re heirlooms: direct descendants of peach seeds brought across the continent on the Trail of Tears. Brown calls them “Indian peaches ...