20, to the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel at 4813 Central Ave. Riders may join the ride at any of the stops, but are cautioned to "Ride at your own risk!"Īnyone interested in seeing them off or joining the ride can come Monday morning, Sept.
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Several festivities will commence throughout the ride.Īnyone is welcome to participate and there is no registration or fees to ride. They have also built the Sacred Tears Monument in Spring Park in Tuscumbia, Ala., with plans to build a river walk project and statue in Waterloo, Ala. In the end, members of the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole nations suffered the same fate as the Cherokees.Īccording to Moore, the ride has expanded to much more than that one route, "continuing on west through Hot Springs, into Oklahoma, on to all five nations that are located on reservations."ĪTTOTCAI raises funds to give scholarships to Native Americans and to build historical markers along the route. "It's called an overland route, because they were moving (Native Americans) by flatboats down the Tennessee River over to the Arkansas River, but due to drought they weren't able to move them by water, so they marched them across this Drane/Hood route," he said.Īs many as 4,000 deaths occurred due to the forced removal of civilized Native Americans from their rightful homes, he said. an overland route that goes from Ross Landing in Chattanooga, Tenn., to the northwestern corner of Alabama, to a little town called Waterloo. "We wanted to raise awareness and mark a particular route, because there were many routes." Moore said, noting the first part of the route is a "specific route. Registration begins 6:45 at a.m., and race starts at 9 a.m. This mass migration was called by one of the participants The Trail of Tears, the name under which this genocide has remained known to this day.
This triathlon consists of a 700 meter swim, 15 mile bike ride, and 4 mile run. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 called for the voluntary or forcible removal of all Native Americans from the eastern United States to the state of Oklahoma. This USAT sanctioned race is held at Trail of Tears State Park.
"The ride was initially started back in 1994 to raise public awareness to the Trail of Tears," Ike Moore, president of the AL-TN Trail of Tears Corridor Association, Inc., told The Sentinel-Record. The group will depart from the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel on Central Avenue at 8 a.m. Participants in the 29th Annual Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle Ride, which honors Native Americans with a scenic ride from Bridgeport, Ala., to Broken Bow, Okla., will include a stop in Hot Springs later this month.
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