click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew Jackson's Indian removal policy, the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an ...

Some four thousand died on what became known as the Trail of Tears. During the treaty’s unveiling at the museum, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Bill John Baker pointed out that this chapter of ...

This area was home to the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw and Seminole nations. These Indian nations ... Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people ...