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 ...

An art gallery features works by Native American ... National Park Service certified the Funk Heritage Center as a Trail of Tears interpretive site. An Appalachian Settlement is located and ...

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 ...

The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, designated as such by Congress in 1987, commemorates the forced removal of the Cherokee people from their homelands in the Southeast to present-day ...