trail of tears, 1838-1839

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.

Recreates the circumstances that befell a young Cherokee doctor on the "Trail of Tears" march to a Georgia internment camp.

The author, a Cherokee Indian, writes of his experience when he walked the Nine hundred mile Trail of Tears in 1989.

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.

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 sequence of poems inspired by the forced removal of the Southern Indians, written by contemporary American author William Jay Smith.

Describes the Federal government's seizure of Cherokee land in Georgia and the forced migration of the Cherokee Nation along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.

Reveals the lives of the Cherokee people who were forced to travel to an Oklahoma reservation in the winter of 1838, discussing their lives before leaving their homes as well as the hardships faced on the trail.