Nunahi-Duna-Dlo-Hily-I presents the heartbreak of Cherokee people walking west on the two routes of the Trail of Tears that crossed in Pulaski. Fear, suffering, survival, and resolve appear in the postures and facial expressions of the figures: a young girl tugs her mother's sleeve, pleading to go home; her dog stops to sense whether they will return; the weary mother is torn between the girl's longing and the future of the baby; and a barefoot man in tattered clothes walks westward with dignity and determination to survive. The rough trail is marked by wagon-wheel ruts, hoof prints, and footprints, including casts of the actual footsteps of two Cherokee people. Artist Gail Bergeron and Pamela Keller, professors of art at Athens State University who both relocated to Giles County by choice, spent eight years researching, fundraising, and designing the sculpture, then created metal armatures for each figure, spent 350 hours adding clay to form them, and had the completed work cast in bronze at a foundry in Georgia.