Illini Confederation, Osage, and Quapaw tribes were also displaced. In honor of National Trail of Tears Commemoration Day Sept. 16, Stacker compiled a list of stories behind the Trail of Tears for ...

The Bender family terrorized travelers along the Osage Trail between 1870 and 1873 before vanishing without a trace ...

Afro-American Indians fled re-enslavement from Florida to Oklahoma, following the Trail of Tears. Eventually ... Caddo, and Osage peoples. The Museum of the Southeast American Indian in Pembroke ...

Three stops along the Georgia section of the Trail of Tears, a National Park Service site that documents the Cherokee journey, will dispel any ignorance about their distinctive history.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s November and it’s unseasonably warm as John John Brown, a Muscogee elder, works to replant peach saplings. “I haven’t had much luck growing them from seed,” he says. The reason, he ...