After months of tiredness, sore muscles and perseverance through training, the 2025 Remember the Removal cyclist team celebrated with a send-off ceremony May 27.

Today, the National Trail of Tears Historic Trail spans nine states, including North Carolina, and covers 5,043 miles of water and land routes. The symposium is presented by the National Trail of ...

A Cherokee account from The Oklahoman, 1929, cited by John Ehle in Trail of Tears ... as a holding area and one of the first stops for North Carolina Cherokee on their forced journey west.

“All went through their own versions of the Trail of Tears,” said Norris. Each summer, students from the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina retrace ...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are descendants who did not go on the Trail of Tears or returned to North Carolina. The ride is to remember Cherokee ancestors who were forcibly removed from ...

Dawes Commission records indicate his slaveholder was Charles Buffington, a half-blood Cherokee, who resided in Brasstown, current-day Clay County, North Carolina, prior to the Trail of Tears.

Blue Ridge Parkway. Great Smoky Mountains. The Appalachian Trail. Carl Sandburg Home. Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout. Fort Raleigh and the Wright Brothers. Revolutionary War battlefields Guilford ...