The cave now serves as a national monument to commemorate ... three detachments of Cherokee to be forced to travel the Trail ...

Now let him enforce it ... to orchestrate one of the greatest ethnic cleansings in US history, the Trail of Tears. From roughly 1830 to 1850, an estimated 60,000 people of the Cherokee ...

He added, "It will be essential to ruin their crops now in the ground and prevent ... into law the Indian Removal Act that led to the Trail of Tears—a death march that forced around 60,000 ...

almost 15,000 Cherokees were forcibly removed from their ancestral homeland in the southern Appalachians to the Indian Territory on a journey that would later become known as 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 ...

CLAREMORE, Okla. — The Rogers County Cherokee Association (RCCA) hosted Troy Wayne Poteete, Executive Director the National Trail of Tears Association (NTOTA) at its regular monthly meeting on ...

The Cherokee diaspora is memorialized at dozens of sites like Mantle Rock, across nine states and 5,000 miles, by the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. As the American frontier bulged westward ...