CHEROKEE, N.C. – After two years of waiting to hold its next conference, the Trail of Tears Association met in Cherokee, North Carolina recently [Sept. 19-21]. Conference attendees got to tour historic sites in the area, take in a Cherokee fashion show and hear historians share information about the Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek) removals from their southeastern homelands. President of the National Trail of Tears Association Jack Baker said work has been ongoing since the late 1980s to mark removal trails with road signs and interpretive panels.
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