The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail is a long-distance route that follows the path the Cherokee nation took during ...

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 ...

Missouri's place within the Trail of Tears will be discussed during The State Historical Society of Missouri's regular History on Elm series.

This trail memorializes one of the darkest chapters in American history. In 1838, the U.S. government forced more than 16,000 Cherokee Indians from their homelands in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, ...