Supporting The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
Supporting The Trail of Tears National Historic Trail

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The Story
Trail segment along the Northern Route at Pea Ridge National Military Park in northwestern Arkansas. The wayside exhibits overlooking the Arkansas River at Fort Smith National Historic Site, located on the Water Route in western Arkansas, depict in 5 individual panels the removal stories of the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), and Seminole Nations. The award-winning Trail of Tears exhibit at the Cherokee Heritage Center in Tahlequah, OK, includes a tactile "bead wall," with each bead representing one removed Cherokee, totaling 16,000 beads. Also, life-cast figures depict the travel along the Trail of Tears.

15th Annual TOTA Conference
Metropolis, Illinois
September 2010

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16th Annual TOTA Conference
Cherokee, North Carolina
October 2011

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