Walk the Trail of Tears in Southeast America to gain a deeper understanding of what Native Americans -- and their enslaved Black Americans -- experienced in their forced removal of the 1800s.

Walk the Trail of Tears in Southeast America to gain a deeper understanding of what Native Americans -- and their enslaved Black Americans -- experienced in their forced removal of the 1800s.

There is a place in Prairie Grove, Arkansas, at the quiet corner of Black Nursery Road and East Heritage Parkway, where the ground remembers. Stand there long enough and you begin to feel the weight of it — not the weight of a battlefield monument or a presidential memorial, but something older and more enduring. This was a road where thousands of people were forced to walk because the United States government, under President Andrew Jackson's I…