Trail of Tears National Historic Trail - Resources


Trail of Tears - National Park Service
“In 1838, the United States government forcibly removed more than 16,000 Cherokee Indian people from their homelands in Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia, and sent them to Indian Territory (today known as Oklahoma).”
Source: NPS

National trail System - Trail of Tears
The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail commemorates the removal of the Cherokee and the paths that 17 Cherokee detachments followed westward.
Source: National Park System, Dept. of the Interior

The Cherokee Trail of Tears 1838-1839
“Between 1816 and 1840, tribes located between the original states and the Mississippi River, including Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, signed more than 40 treaties ceding their lands to the U.S.”
Source: Rose City Net

Cherokee Trail of Tears Commemorative Park
This historic park is one of the few documented sites of actual trail and campsites used during the forced removal of the Cherokee people to "Indian Territory".
Source: Cherokee National Historical Society

General Winfield Scott’s Order
This is a transcript of General Winfield Scott’s Order to U.S. Troops assigned to the Cherokee Removal.
Source: Carl Vinson Institute of Government Government, University of Georgia