USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This is the story of the removal of the Cherokee Nation from its ancestral homeland in parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama to land set aside for American Indians in what is now the state of Oklahoma.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Trail passes through the present-day states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Tennessee.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail traces their route to Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the current capital of the Cherokee Nation. An exhibit at the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah features 16, 000 hand-crafted beads representing the people who made that awful journey.

Detailed explanation-4: -On March 26, 1839, Cherokee Indians came to the end of the “Trail of Tears, ” a forced death march from their ancestral home in the Smoky Mountains to the Oklahoma Territory.