With their heavy backpacks, they look like just another couple hiking down America's highways. But chief Lone Eagle Watkins and his wife, Earth Child, say they're following in their ancestors' ...

Nearly two centuries after thousands of Indigenous people were forcibly removed from their homelands and marched through ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — The Arkansas Chapter Trail of Tears Association hosted their annual meeting on August 16, where they also unveiled the Water Route for the Drops that Filled the River: Blood ...

Motorcyclists from across the Southeast will gather Saturday, Sept. 20, for the 32nd annual Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle Ride, a scenic journey across northern Alabama honoring Native ...

Twelve Cherokee riders retrace the Northern Route of the Trail of Tears in a powerful act of cultural remembrance. Get to know the 2025 ‘Remember the Removal’ team participating in this historic ...

SOUTHERN Ill. (HEARTLAND NEWS) - A dozen cyclists riding in the Cherokee Nation’s 2026 Remember the Removal Bike Ride recently entered Illinois. According to organizers, the annual journey honors the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 14—During the Cherokee removal in the summer of 1838 — the last tribe to be forcibly removed from east of the Mississippi ...

The Cherokee Nation, following a week of celebratory and tribal events in Chattanooga, headed back to Oklahoma while distributing almost $100,000 to Trail of Tears associations in the nine states the ...

Citing safety concerns, Huntsville city leaders have decided to make no changes to the annual Trail of Tears route. Mayor Lorretta Spencer, Council President Glenn Watson and the Director of Public ...

SPRINGFIELD (AP) -- People will soon find it easier to retrace the path Cherokee Indians took through southwest Missouri as they traveled the Trail of Tears in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ava Lowery, an archaeology specialist at Chattanooga Audubon Society, points to the Cherokee alphabet (Robyn Wilson) Blocked by a ...