click image for close-up In 1838 and 1839, as part of Andrew ... The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears," because of its devastating effects. The migrants faced hunger ...

Little River Canyon National Preserve was where in 1838, 1,100 members of the Cherokee, Muskogee, and Creek passed through.

In May 1838, the deadline for voluntary native removal, prompted the Cherokee "Trail of Tears," known as one of the darkest episodes in relations between the United States and Native Americans.

Through the winter of 1838 to 1839, thousands of Cherokee people walked this ... across nine states and 5,000 miles, by the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail. As the American frontier bulged ...

that is to say — during the fall of 1838, I believe, was when they moved all those Cherokee Indians, they had that forced march, thousands died. It was the so-called Trail of Tears. And that is ...

In 1838, Scott led a force of 7,000 men that forcibly removed the Cherokee Indians from their lands in Georgia. The removal, which became known as the Trail of Tears, was a nightmare for the ...