WHAT:
Cherokee Nation to host send-off ceremony for the 2025 Remember the Removal cyclists
WHEN:
Tuesday, May 27 at 9 a.m.
WHERE:
One Fire Field Pavilion west of W.W. Keeler Tribal Complex
17675 S. Muskogee Avenue
Tahlequah
WHO:
Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.
Deputy Principal Chief Bryan Warner
Cherokee Nation Cabinet
Council of the Cherokee Nation members
2025 Remember the Removal cyclists
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation will host a send-off ceremony for the 12 Cherokee Nation cyclists who leave Tahlequah, Oklahoma on Tuesday for the 2025 Remember the Removal Bike Ride.
The Cherokee Nation cyclists will join six cyclists from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, North Carolina, and will begin their ride in New Echota, Georgia on June 2, and will conclude around 950 miles later in Tahlequah on June 20.
Cyclists follow the Northern Route of the Trail of Tears, spanning Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, to retrace the path of their ancestors. Of the estimated 16,000 Cherokees forced to march to Indian Territory in the late 1830s, about 4,000 died due to exposure, starvation and disease, giving credence to the name Trail of Tears.