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 ...

By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan The United States is in a constitutional crisis with scant historical precedent as President ...

Three stops along the Georgia section of the Trail of Tears, a National Park Service site that documents the Cherokee journey, will dispel any ignorance about their distinctive history.

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 western lands. By 1837, the Jackson administration had ...

A Hopkinsville man was charged with burglary after he was found in a warehouse building at the Trail of Tears Commemorative ...

Joined by residents of the Rez HOPE Gadugi House, an addiction recovery center, in Cherokee, N.C. They explained the ...

Our immigration system, a foundational part of American exceptionalism, is broken. A bipartisan bill was worked out by Congress in 2024 to address this matter, but it was tanked by Republican ...

They're heirlooms: direct descendants of peach seeds brought across the continent on the Trail of Tears. Brown calls them "Indian peaches" while other Muscogees call them "Trail of Tears peaches." ...

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 ...