click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy ... The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects.

Trail of Tears: The Hymn is a narrative short film on the true story of a Cherokee man who transcribed his grandmother’s hymn ...

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

It was the so-called Trail of Tears. And that is why so many people ... and it ended up being a disaster for the Indian community and for a stain on our country. DOOCY: It was.

Known as the Trail of Tears, the removal saw thousands of Cherokees pushed from their ancestral lands in the Southeast to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Since 1983, the Cherokee Nation ...

Erin Whitson, an archaeologist, will lead the discussion, focusing on archaeological insights into the Indian Removal Act's impact. Whitson's research centers on two Trail of Tears campsites in ...

The exhibit, which will arrive in March of 2026, is adapted from an original exhibition developed by the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian ... the Trail of Tears, and the Battle ...