On this day 182 years ago President Andrew Jackson signed into law the Indian Removal Act ...

We've made it pretty clear that history has done an awful job of representing the persecution of Native Americans after European contact...

Learn how Cherokees used traditional plants as medicine, food, shelter, weapons and more prior to the Trail of Tears, and how some tribal members are working to preserve traditiona...

March 7 and 8 marked the 150th anniversary of the Civil War Battle of Pea Ridge, fought in northwest Arkansas near the Oklahoma border...

If most non-Natives know only Tonto , the local sports mascot, and a full-voiced “Geronominoooo!”as their key Indian country reference points, that’s partly because television and ...

This February 5 entry from the Ms. Magazine blog enlightens readers to the contributions of Native American women...

Update: ICTMN has received confirmation that the grandmothers themselves will not be going on this trek, more information to come...

On Saturday night, following the Oklahoma Sooners' surprise loss to the Texas Tech Red Raiders, ESPN News anchor Todd Grisham remarked that "it's a trail of tears in Oklahoma—the S...

The Little Rock campus at the University of Arkansas dedicated a small park commemorating a portion of the historic Trail of Tears on October 12...