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 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 ...

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

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.

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 ...

This portion of the Trail of Tears, known as the Drane/Hood Overland Route, was nearly lost to history until eight motorcyclists in 1994 decided to trace the route on their bikes. A tradition was ...

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 ...