The bicycle ride is a youth leadership program and is a three-week, nearly 1,000-mile memorial ride taken to commemorate the ...

Chief John Ross and other leaders of the Cherokee nation wrote a letter to Congress to protest the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. This treaty, signed by a group of Cherokees claiming to represent ...

National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Library of Congress John Ross made an unlikely looking Cherokee chief. Born in 1790 to a Scottish trader and a woman of Indian and European ...

For the first time, the Oklahoma Trail of Tears Association marked the graves of Cherokee Freedmen who survived the Trail of ...

“The more we spoke on the phone over the course of that spring and summer about her work on the space program, and her great great grandfather, Cherokee Indian Chief John Ross, the more inspired ...

These Indian nations ... this group were not the recognized leaders of the Cherokee nation, and over 15,000 Cherokees -- led by Chief John Ross -- signed a petition in protest.