“All went through their own versions of the Trail of Tears,” said Norris. Each summer, students from the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina retrace ...

Some 15,000 died from starvation, disease and exposure during the difficult “Trail of Tears” journey. This article originally appeared on Oakridger: The Cherokees, Sequoyah and the Trail of Tears ...

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 ...