The statue, designed by a Native artist, is meant to each people about the painful history of ethnic cleansing and foster ...

It’s one-stop shopping for history, thanks to the Poarch Creek Museum. We teamed up with knowledgeable tour guide Blake Crook ...

the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears ...

There, the Army chronicles 14 named “Indian Wars Campaigns” stretching ... a military-enforced displacement that became known as the Trail of Tears. Cherokee authorities estimate that 6,000 ...

the utter destruction of the Creek Nation as the Native Americans from vast regions of the southeast were rounded up and moved to reservations in Oklahoma. It was known as the Trail of Tears.

Brown’s peaches aren’t your everyday peaches, they’re heirlooms: direct descendants of peach seeds brought across the continent on the Trail of Tears. Brown calls them “Indian peaches ...

It’s November and it’s unseasonably warm as John John Brown, a Muscogee elder, works to replant peach saplings. “I haven’t had much luck growing them from seed,” he says. The reason, he ...

The Poarch Band of Creek Indians are a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans with reservation lands in lower Alabama. As Mvskoke people, they speak the Muscogee language. They were formerly ...

John Benge detachment of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Benge, a Cherokee court judge, led a group of 1,200 Cherokees from Wills Valley, Ala., near present-day Fort Payne, to the Indian Territory ...

The school grounds are “a portal to past whispers, shouts, laughter and tears,” in the words of author and retired Arizona ...