Here's the 2025 32nd Annual Official Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle Ride TShirt for our BIG supporters! :) We're sorry to have to ask for an extra $5 from our big supporters but.... it's just passing on the pain. We love ya... we appreciate ya... thanks for your support! (If you're looking for the size small to XL shirts go back one page and click on the right listing!)
Each year the official TShirt bears the graphic produced by our in-house artist, Arissa Wheeler, to commemorate that year. For the 32nd Annual Ride we have an image produce by Arissa that carries her description,
The 2025 T-Shirt Design:
Every year, five eagle feathers are included to honor the five nations: Cherokee, Creek, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Seminole.
The scene is that of the road and route that the Trail of Tears Commemorative Motorcycle ride follows. The ever-moving landscape that the riders drive through each year is symbolized by the sky, grass field, and oak tree representing the passing of time and our connection to the natural world.
The motorcycle riders in the design ride from east to west, following the commemorative route from Bridgeport to Waterloo, AL. All day, they ride, and once they reach Waterloo, they join in the ceremonial Pow Wow song and dance to rest and remember those they honor.
The spirit rider on the horse symbolizes the past leaders, warriors, men, women, and children forcibly removed from their homes in 1838. If you have been on the ride, you may have felt a profound honor to carry the memory of the past with you in the present moment. This spirit rider also represents this feeling, both beautiful and free but mournful for what was lost.
As we ride, we commemorate and carry the memory of those from the past. Many of us who ride have direct ancestors for whom we ride, and their memory lives on with us, as well as those who re-tell and listen to the stories shared from the past.
Thank you to everyone who remembers and continues to pass along these stories.
Arissa Wheeler
