In honor of National Trail of Tears Commemoration Day Sept. 16, Stacker compiled a list of stories behind the Trail of Tears for each of the nine states it passed through, based on archived ...

Click through this gallery and find out what happened on the Trail of Tears.

The Trail of Tears is an epochal moment not only in Cherokee history, but also in Black history. Descendants of slaves owned by Native people therefore claim this story as rightful heirs.

A new book authored by members of the Hickman County Historical Society tells a detailed history of the area’s place along ...

The timing was key in the Trail of Tears, Wells said. "The forced removal began in the winter months, when the weather was very bad," he said. "And the contractors the Army had hired to provide ...

Remember the Removal Bike Ride. The ride is 950-mile trek that retraces the northern route of the Trail of Tears. It spans seven states and ends in Tahlequah, Okla., on June 22.

This ethnic cleansing, known as the Trail of Tears, led to an estimated 4,000 deaths and ended with European colonists occupying the Cherokee homeland. Now, one woman's journey to retrace her people's ...

View full sizeRon Cooper talks about his book "It's My Trail Too: A Comanche Indian's Journey on the Trail of Tears" next to a picture of himself on the first day of his three month walk on the ...

In 1830, President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act that led to the Trail of Tears — a death march that forced around 60,000 Indigenous people to leave their homes and move ...

The Trail of Tears Remembrance Committee is working with Native groups to honor people who passed through Steelville during their forced removal from their ancestral homes in the East by the U.S. ...