This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) — The 31st ...

Markers and remnants of the Trail of Tears stretch as a series of scars across the American landscape. The trail’s facilitators stand as a representation of America at her worst; its captives as a ...

Feb. 14—The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma gives information on how people can remember and honor the journey of Choctaw ancestors through the tribe's Third Annual Trail of Tears Virtual Journey. 1 What ...

A local playwright is helping a new generation understand one of the most significant and heartbreaking chapters in Native American history through the power of theater. “The government signed the ...

This summer bike riders from two Cherokee tribes are retracing the Trail of Tears. Along the way they'll learn about the forced removal of their ancestors. Cyclists from two Cherokee tribes are ...

In 1838, the Cherokee of the American southeast, one of the Five Civilized Tribes, were forced out of their farms and towns and relocated eight hundred miles to the west, in Indian Territory. A ...

VILLAGE CREEK STATE PARK — The tragic Trail of Tears weaves a spider web of routes across Arkansas, as marked by the many commemorative signs along hundreds of miles of highways across the state.

Missouri has the most miles of the Cherokee Trail of Tears, and Steelville is on its path. Archaeologist Erin Whitson has been working to verify Cherokee encampment sites in town, in the hopes that ...

In the 1830s, the United States forced the relocation of tens of thousands of Cherokee people from their homelands in the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. This ethnic cleansing, known as the ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- An unlabeled, nearly 200-year-old map, stored in the Missouri State Archives, became the starting point to discovering the earliest roads in Southeast Missouri, specifically ...

It’s November and it’s unseasonably warm as John John Brown, a Muscogee elder, works to replant peach saplings. “I haven’t had much luck growing them from seed,” he says. The reason, he thinks, is ...