The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail incorporates an auto-route of the path taken by the Cherokee in Illinois. The ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Peach seeds were carried in the pocket of a man who was forced to relocate to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears, and when he arrived in the Eufaula area, he planted them and grew an orchard. The variety ...