Introduction / Duane H. King and E. Raymond Evans -- Schermerhorn's summons to the Cherokee to assemble at Red Clay -- Memorandum to the Cherokees, December 28, 1837 / John Kennedy, Th. W. Wilson, Nat ...

Instead, Trail of Tears documents the level of “civilization” that the Cherokee Nation established while still on its native land; the inter-tribal rifts that resulted from the Removal Act and the ...

Cherokee Nation cyclists participating in the 2026 Remember the Removal Bike Ride were the first such group to stop at the ...

The U.S. Forest Service has torn up a section of the Trail of Tears in the Appalachian Mountains, reopening wounds for Native Americans who consider the land sacred, as thousands of their ancestors ...

Markers and remnants of the Trail of Tears stretch as a series of scars across the American landscape. The trail’s facilitators stand as a representation of America at her worst; its captives as a ...

NEW ECHOTA, GA ‒ Horror lingers in the knotted sweet gum and bent magnolia trees. To stand here is to feel shock, cruelty and despair emanating from the red clay of north Georgia. Blood is as much a ...