cherokee indians

Describes the life of Sequoyah, the Cherokee Indian who invented a system of writing for his people.

Dramatizes the removal of the Cherokees to Indian territory in Oklahoma and details events leading up to the loss of their traditional lands in the Southeast.

Six-year-old Turtle Green witnesses a freak accident drawing her and her mother into a conflict of historic proportions.

Describes the history, culture, and social customs of the Cherokee people who lived in the southeastern United States and who faced many challenges with the arrival of European explorers and settlers.

Maritole, one of the many thousands of Cherokees who were uprooted from their homes after being betrayed by the U.S. government, struggles to survive on the forced march along the Trail of Tears, while searching to understand why this has happened to her people.

A narrative history of the removal by white Americans of the Cherokee peoples from their eastern homeland to the Indian Territory now known as Oklahoma.

Illustrations and easy-to-follow text retell the Cherokee legend in which a magical spirit in the form of a dog creates the Milky Way galaxy with cornmeal.

An eleven-year-old Cherokee sets off on a one-boy raid of a Creek town to rescue his "unusual" horse.

An account of the 1837-1838 removal of the Cherokees from the southeastern United States to Indian Territory, with an overview of the life of the Cherokees and events leading up to their exile, and discussion of the hardships of the forced march that led to the death of approximately 4,000 tribe members.

A biography of Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected chief of the Cherokee Nation, discussing her childhood, her family's move to California in 1956 as part of a government relocation program, her health problems, and her devotion to Native American causes.