Some four thousand died on what became known as the Trail of Tears. During the treaty’s unveiling at the museum, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker pointed out that this chapter of ...

Under these treaties, the Indians were to give up their ... Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to ...

The Cherokees’ forced journey between those two destinations became known as the Trail of Tears. Ridge saw the treaty as the only way to gain replacement land but he is said to have recognized ...

Ridge along with his father, Major Ridge, signed the Treaty of New Echota. John Ridge lived in the home known as Running ...

Apr 30, 2021 Apr 30, 2021 Updated Jun 7, 2021 When William McIntosh and a few other Creek leaders agreed to a treaty to sell the remaining Muskogee lands in Georgia, they all knew they were ...

Though fraudulently negotiated, that treaty would become the legal basis for the Trail of Tears. During the fall and winter of 1838, the Cherokee people were forced along the Trail of Tears; some ...