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Navajo long walk

the tragic story of a proud people's forced march from their homeland
2002
Illustrations and simple text chronicle the forced march of thousands of Navajos from their homelands to Bosque Redondo in January, 1864.

The girl who chased away sorrow

the diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo girl
1999
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.

Only the names remain

the Cherokees and the Trail of Tears
1996
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.

The trail of tears

the Cherokee journey from home
1995
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.

Korematsu v. United States

Japanese-American internment
2006
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.

How I became a ghost

a Choctaw Trail of Tears story
2013
A Choctaw boy tells the story of his tribe's removal from the only land its people had ever known, and how their journey to Oklahoma led him to become a ghost--one with the ability to help those he left behind.

The relocation of the North American Indian

2002
Discusses the forced relocation of American Indian tribes by the American government, resulting in tribal warfare, broken treaties, and the brutal march known as the Trail of Tears.

Pushing the bear

a novel of the Trail of Tears
1996
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.

No place to go

effects of compulsory relocation on Navajos
1982

Night of the cruel moon

Cherokee removal and the Trail of Tears
1996
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.

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