relations with cherokee indians

A narrative history of President Andrew Jackson, whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears, and Cherokee Chief John Ross, a mixed-race Cherokee politician and diplomat who used the United States legal system and democratic ideals to oppose Jackson and protect the land of the Five Civilized Tribes.

Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the U.S. government's removal of the Cherokee from their ancestral homes in Georgia to Oklahoma in 1838.