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.
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.
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.
Chronicles the 1838-1839 forced relocation of the Cherokee nation off their lands in the South to Oklahoma and the over 4,000 Native Americans who perished along the way.
Based on a true story, tells about a young slave girl who is sold away from her mother, then later sold to a Cherokee Indian; but a white man buys her, sets her free, and adopts her into his already large family.
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.
a primary source history of the forced relocation of the Cherokee Nation
Byers, Ann
2004
Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the U.S. government's removal of the Cherokee from their ancestral homes in Georgia to Oklahoma in 1838.
