The “Trail of Tears” was a tragic chapter in the country’s history: the forcible removal of Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw and Chickasaw people from their homelands in the southeast to Indian Territory, ...

DURANT, Okla. (KTEN) — In memory of the journey that relocated thousands of Native Americans to Oklahoma between 1830 and 1850, the Choctaw Nation is hosting its annual Virtual Trail of Tears Walk.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...