riding the trail: Cherokees Remember the Removal
2021 Remember the Removal War Cry
Video courtesy of Will Chavez
riding the trail: Cherokees Remember the Removal
Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN: 9781623543143
August 25, 2026
Bags packed. Bicycles loaded. Now they’ll ride almost 1,000 miles in three weeks as part of the Cherokee Nation’s Remember the Removal ride.
Follow Cherokee youth on a journey that retraces the Trail of Tears—from Georgia to Oklahoma. They ride in order to remember history and to link the past and the present through culture, resilience, and activism.
They train for the ride, dive into the Cherokee language, and find out more about this important chapter in their tribe’s history.
This intriguing story, told in words and photographs, is about one year’s riders, and is penned by award-winning enrolled Cherokee Nation citizens— author Traci Sorell and her journalist coauthor Will Chavez, who also served as the ride coordinator.
This does something no other book does—presents the Trail of Tears in a contemporary context. The youth who ride the trail each year are an example of the way that Cherokee people thrive today.
