The Cherokee River of Tears

The Cherokee River of Tears  is a true historical story of a Cherokee Native American family's survival during one of the darkest times in American history. The Cherokee people and their leaders were divided on giving up their ancestral lands east of the Mississippi River to migrate west. This decision was forced when President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 that sent the Cherokee people on the devastating journey known as the "Trail of Tears." There were those that th