Chief John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee nation wrote a letter to Congress to protest the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. This treaty, signed by a group of Cherokees claiming to represent ...

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Library of Congress John Ross made an unlikely looking Cherokee chief ... Oklahoma would call it the Trail of Tears. The exodus was a communal ...

For the first time, the Oklahoma Trail of Tears Association marked the graves of Cherokee Freedmen who survived the Trail of ...

The Trail of Tears ... by the Cherokee. Ross's Landing preserves one of the main departure points for the Cherokee. John Ross ...