Her mother came to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. Crockett said Freedmen have served on the Seminole Nation's general council. One was his brother. The benefits his people can now expect include ...

Join me as we take a look into the history of the Trail of Tears. Before their forced removal from the southeast, the five main tribes living in the region were the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole ...

Markers and remnants of the Trail of Tears stretch as a series of scars ... Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole nations in the early 1800s accounted for significant swaths of land stretching from ...

The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment. The Trail of Tears refers to the relocation of Native Americans from the southeastern U.S. in the 19th ...

and Seminole tribes, from their homelands to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in the 1830s. Wes hears the story of his how his ancestor journeyed on the Trail of Tears, which was a forced ...

In the case of the Trail of Tears and the enslavement of blacks by prominent members of all five so-called “Civilized Tribes” (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole), Smith went one ...

during the Seminole Wars, many Native Americans avoided being captured by Andrew Jackson and being sent West on the Trail of Tears by taking refuge in the caverns. Florida Cavern State Park ...

The Trail of Tears began 170 years ago ... Other tribes such as the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole were forced off their lands in the Southeast. More than 100,000 tribal people were ...