Online Resources
Trail of Tears (8 resources)
How Did Six Different Native Nations Try to Avoid Removal?
Classroom
This interactive features illustrated stories of the strategies that American Indian leaders from six different nations used in their attempts to keep their homelands.
The Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal
Classroom
This interactive uses primary sources, quotes, images, and short videos of contemporary Cherokee people to tell the story of how the Cherokee Nation resisted removal and persisted to renew and rebuild their nation.
The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
Blog
The Treaty of New Echota was used by the United States to justify the removal of the Cherokee people along the Trail of Tears.
Director's Discussion with Steve Inskeep
Video
Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s Morning Edition and the author of Jacksonland, discusses President Andrew Jackson’s long-running conflict with John Ross, a Cherokee chief who resisted the removal of Indians from the eastern United States in the 1830s.
Thinking about the Indian Removal Act
Blog
The Indian Removal Act, signed by Andrew Jackson in 1830, became for American Indians one of the most detrimental laws in U.S. history.
Cherokee Days 2015: Trail of Tears
Video
Catherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer for the Cherokee Nation, gives a talk on what led up to the Cherokee Trail of Tears.
1871: The End of Indian Treaty-Making
Article
Why did treaty-making with Indian nations fall into disfavor? The answer lies in understanding the transformation of American thought about Indian nations after the Civil War.
Cherokee Days 2014: Trail of Tears with Catherine Foreman Gray
Video
Catherine Foreman Gray, History and Preservation Officer for the Cherokee Nation, addresses the Trail of Tears and the events that led up to the removal of the Cherokee people.
