Online Resources
Trail of Tears (8 resources)
How Did Six Different Native Nations Try to Avoid Removal?
Classroom
The Trail of Tears: A Story of Cherokee Removal
Classroom
The Treaty That Forced the Cherokee People from Their Homelands Goes on View
Blog
Director's Discussion with Steve Inskeep
Video
Thinking about the Indian Removal Act
Blog
Cherokee Days 2015: Trail of Tears
Video
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