click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

Democracy at the Crossroads—the section of Americans about the Trail of Tears—explores the contemporary relevance of removal and why it is still embedded in 21st-century American life.

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.

Missouri's place within the Trail of Tears will be discussed during The State Historical Society of Missouri's regular ...

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail is a long-distance route that follows the path the Cherokee nation took during ...

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.) ...

In memory of the journey that relocated thousands of Native Americans to Oklahoma, the Choctaw Nation is hosting its annual ...

Overland Trail Museum has been chosen to host another traveling Smithsonian exhibit, “Americans.” The exhibit, which will ...

In memory of the journey that relocated thousands of Native Americans to Oklahoma between 1830 and 1850, the Choctaw Nation ...