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 ...

Shutterstock The Cherokee Trail of Tears In 1838-1839, the U.S. government forced about 16,000 Cherokee people to leave their ...

When Cherokee chief John Ross was preparing to head to Washington with hopes of delaying removal by force, his opponents imprisoned him in a cabin with the decaying corpse of a hanged Cherokee ...

For the first time, the Oklahoma Trail of Tears Association marked the graves of Cherokee Freedmen who survived the Trail of Tears that occurred in 1838 and 1839.

The Cherokees vs. Andrew Jackson John Ross and Major Ridge tried diplomatic and legal strategies to maintain autonomy, but the new president had other plans ...

Elizabeth Bushyhead, wife of Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Dennis Bushyhead, is buried in the Cherokee National Cemetery in Fort Gibson and is one of numerous Cherokee people interred in the ...

When Georgia attempted to expand into Cherokee land, John Ross, the Cherokee’s first elected chief, took the state to the Supreme Court. The Cherokee were highly educated and had modeled their ...

When the forced roundup of Cherokees began in May 1838, most were taken to Ross's Landing or the Cherokee Agency on the Hiwassee River at Charleston, Tennessee. The plans were to deport Cherokees ...

John Ross continued as principal chief of the CN, and Joseph Vann, who had been a chief for the Old Settlers, was elected to serve as his deputy chief. In 1898, the Curtis Act instituted by the ...

Ratified in 1835, the Treaty of New Echota led to the forced removal of Cherokee people from their ancestral lands to Indian Territory in the West—a migration known as the Trail of Tears.

At the crossroads of the Trail of Tears, Little Rock reckons with its history Native Americans’ forced march in the 1800s ran through the Arkansas capital. The city is now grappling with how to ...