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

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 ...

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 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 ...

The removal, which became known as the Trail of Tears, was a nightmare for the Cherokees, a peaceful tribe that had adopted many white ways. Their homes were burned and many of their possessions ...