the Cherokee nation was forced to give up its lands east of the Mississippi River and to migrate to an area in present-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee people called this journey the "Trail of Tears ...

Benge, a Cherokee court judge, led a group of 1,200 Cherokees from Wills Valley, Ala., near present-day Fort Payne, to the Indian Territory, in present day Oklahoma, according to the Goodspeed ...