Bealer, Alex W

Tells how the Cherokee nation was cheated out of its land in the mountains of Georgia in the 1830s by white men and political leaders who refused to enforce the laws protecting Native-American rights, forcing the Cherokees to begin a treacherous journey to Arkansas which claimed many of their lives.

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