click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy ... The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects.

These Indian nations, in the view of the settlers ... 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 ...

The Trail of Tears commemorates the path that 17 groups of Cherokee, called detachments, traveled by land and water to reach the Indian Territory in Oklahoma. The Trail of Tears National Historic ...

The Indian Removal Act ... have chosen to know and not know about the Trail of Tears. Dennis Zotigh Visitors to the National Archives in Washington, D.C., viewing the Removal Act of 1830.

Approximately sixteen thousand men, women, and children made the forced journey to Indian Territory. Some four thousand died on what became known as the Trail of Tears. During the treaty’s ...

It was the so-called Trail of Tears. And that is why so many people ... and it ended up being a disaster for the Indian community and for a stain on our country. DOOCY: It was.

Nicholas, Tom, Ari Medoff, Raven Smith, and Sam Subramanian. "The Indian Removal Act and the 'Trail of Tears'." Harvard Business School Case 812-079, December 2011. (Revised February 2019.) ...

The Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole—likely more than 90,000 people in all—also were rounded up and moved to Indian Territory. “All went through their own versions of the Trail of Tears,” said ...

The Oklahoma Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association will mark the graves of two Trail of Tears survivors at 1 p.m., April ...