cherokee

Chronicles the life of Nanye-hi, a Cherokee woman who helped improve relations between her tribe and the white man in the mid-1700s.

A history of the Cherokees emphasizing their continuous mistreatment by the white man and the United States Government.

A biography of the Cherokee chief who led his people for more than 40 years, first in an effort to keep their homeland, and later through their greatest trial when they were forced to go west by the United States government.

After Possum and Buzzard fail in their attempts to steal a piece of the sun, Grandmother Spider succeeds in bringing light to the animals on her side of the world.

Describes the life of the Cherokee Indians in Georgia before and after the U.S. government forcibly removed them from their land.

Reviews the history of the Trail of Tears, during which the United States government forced thousands of Cherokee west of the Mississippi. Includes illustrations, a time line, quotations from historical figures, side-bars, and more.

Provides an account of the U.S. government's removal of the Cherokee people from their lands east of the Mississippi River in the 1830s, discussing the Supreme Court cases that preceded the movement west, the Trail of Tears, attempts to unite rival Cherokee tribes in the new territory, and the removal's legacy.

Presents the story of a woman, half Cherokee and half African-American, and her family, their years of slavery, forced removal to the Indian territory of Oklahoma, and her determination to overcome her circumstances.

Biography of a Cherokee Indian who created a written form of the Cherokee language.

Soft Rain, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, is forced to relocate, along with her family, from North Carolina to the West.