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 ...

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. But ...

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 ...

By 1838-39, Chief Ross had no choice but to execute the removal process in a difficult journey later recognized by the Cherokee as the Trail of Tears.

The Principal Chief of Cherokee Nation told his people to stay strong during this pandemic, and to remember how much they've endured over a long history that includes the Trail of Tears. This ...

If the Cherokee Nation's future seemed perilous in late 1834, it was about to take a disastrous turn in 1835. While Chief John Ross and his delegation had been in Washington, D.C., once again ...

The Cherokee Nation has always played an outsized role in dealing with the U.S. government and its various presidents, politicians and policymakers, beginning with Chief John Ross, who tirelessly ...