Trail of Tears Association

The Trail of Tears Association (TOTA) is a non-profit, membership organization formed to support the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, which commemorates the forced removal of the Cherokee and other tribes (primarily the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee Creek, and Seminole) from their homelands in the southeastern United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) in the early and mid-1800s.