CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) President Bush has signed into law the Trail of Tears Study Act to research routes used when American Indians were forced from their ancestral homeland into what is now ...

Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. This picture, The Trail of Tears, was painted by Robert Lindneux in 1942. It commemorates the suffering of the Cherokee people under forced removal.

These were the first steps of what is now known as the Trail of Tears, an 800-mile journey that ... receive “wayside exhibits”—markers with pictures and text by Hill—explaining the ...

More Getty Images The capped up word 'Trail' was read by critics as an allusion to the Trail of Tears, which saw thousands of Native Americans forcibly relocated from their lands in the American ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) -- President Bush has signed into law the Trail of Tears Study Act, directing the National Park Service to finish research on routes used when American Indians were forced ...

Over 4,000 out of 15,000 of the Cherokees died. This picture, The Trail of Tears, was painted by Robert Lindneux in 1942. It commemorates the suffering of the Cherokee people under forced removal.

At the White House on Friday morning, H.R. 3085, the Trail of Tears Study Act, was signed into law by President George Bush. The bill, authored by Congressman Zach Wamp, directs the National Park ...