Anthony Sequoyah, operations manager of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, talks about the relationship between the tribe, the Trail of Tears forced migration and nature.

Sequoyah is perhaps best known for creating ... with about 100,000 displaced in total. The Trail of Tears made by the ...

Then began the march known as the Trail of Tears, in which 4,000 Cherokee people died of cold, hunger, and disease on their way to the western lands. By 1837, the Jackson administration had ...

Sequoyah attributes the impulse to help after disaster in part to the generational trauma his ancestors endured. With thousands of members of the broader Cherokee Nation forced off their land onto the ...

Anthony Sequoyah, secretary of operations for the ... of the broader Cherokee Nation forced off their land onto the Trail of Tears and abused if not killed in federal boarding schools, many ...