The Cherokee Odyssey (Trail of Tears)

Between 1825 and 1850 the Cherokees experienced much upheaval and social change. Ultimately the Cherokees would be removed from their ancestral homeland and would divide into the Ridge and Ross factions. As tensions built, the two parties were forced to move west. Experience the travail of this journey in the Cherokee Odyssey as the tribe loses one quarter of its people on the infamous Trail of Tears.