An account of relations between the Cherokee Nation and the United States in the early nineteenth century, particularly the reasons for, and difficulties of, the forced journey of the Cherokee to an Oklahoma reservation.
Provides a brief history of the Cherokee nation and discusses how Cherokees tried to change their way of living to fit into white society and the forced relocation of the people known as the Trail of Tears.
Sarah Nita uses her education at the white man's school to write down her grandmother's account of the Long Walk of 1864, during which the Navajo people were driven off their land and forced by soldiers to take refuge in Fort Sumner.
Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
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.
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.
Examines the controversial topic of Japanese-American internment camps by presenting fifteen primary and secondary documents on the topic, with introductions providing contextual information. Also includes an extensive further-reading list.
Describes the historical context of the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case involving Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu and the United States that allowed the removal and imprisonment of Korematsu and other Japanese-Americans because of military necessity.
