Riding the Trail: Cherokees Remember the Removal
All throughout June, we’ll be following the bike readers cycling 950 miles along the northern route of the Trail of Tears, beginning in New Echota, Georgia—the former capital of the Cherokee Nation—and ending June 19 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The ride was established in 1984 as a cultural and leadership program, challenging participants both physically and emotionally, giving them a small glimpse into the hardships their ancestors faced on foot.
June 7th: An important stop on the Remember the Removal bike ride.
From Facebook on June 2: The day ended with a somber ferry ride from the newly dedicated Cherokee Trail of Tears Stare Park at Blythe Ferry, where many of our Cherokee ancestors took a ferry across the river, looking back one last time at their homelands that had been taken from them by force. #neverforget #RTR2026
In a new book coming out in August, award-winning author Traci Sorell and debut author Will Chavez, a Cherokee Nation and San Felipe Pueblo citizen, chronicle the 2021 Remember the Removal bike ride, during which four Indigenous teenagers commemorate the history of the Trail of Tears.
You can follow these inspiring riders on Facebook.
