CULLOWHEE (July 19, 2014)—“Beyond the Trail of Tears: A View from the Cherokee Homeland,” a Summer Institute for K–12 schoolteachers and eligible graduate students, was hosted by the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT) for three weeks in July.
The Institute was sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Educators examined the forced removal of thousands of Cherokees from their homes in the East to
land west of the Mississippi River, often called the Trail of Tears, following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.