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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
the Fascinating Portrayal Of The Cherokee Nation,  filled With Native American Legend, Lore, And Religion — A  gripping American Drama Of Power, Politics,  betrayal,... And Ambition.b & W Photographs library Journal one Of The Many Ironies Of U.s. Government Policy Toward Indians In The Early 1800s Is That It Persisted In Removing To The West Those Who Had Most Successfully Adapted To European Values. As Whites Encroached On Cherokee Land, Many Native Leaders Responded By Educating Their Children, Learning English, And Developing Plantations. Such A Leader Was Ridge, Who Had Fought With Andrew Jackson Against The British. As He And Other Cherokee Leaders Grappled With The Issue Of Moving, The Land-hungry Georgia Legislatiors, With The Aid Of Jackson, Succeeded In Ousting The Cherokee From Their Land, Forcing Them To Make The Arduous Journey West On The Infamous ``trail Of Tears.'' Popular History For Public Libraries. Mary B. Davis, Museum Of American Indian Lib., New York
Killing Crazy Horse: The Merciless Indian Wars in America
The Latest Installment Of The Multimillion-selling Killing Series Is A Gripping Journey Through The American West And The Historic Clashes Between Native Americans And Settlers. The Bloody Battle Of T...ippecanoe Was Only The Beginning. It’s 1811 And President James Madison Has Ordered The Destruction Of Shawnee Warrior Chief Tecumseh’s Alliance Of Tribes In The Great Lakes Region. But While General William Henry Harrison Would Win This Fight, The Armed Conflict Between Native Americans And The Newly Formed United States Would Rage On For Decades. Bestselling Authors Bill O’reilly And Martin Dugard Venture Through The Fraught History Of Our Country’s Founding On Already Occupied Lands, From General Andrew Jackson’s Brutal Battles With The Creek Nation To President James Monroe’s Epic “sea To Shining Sea” Policy, To President Martin Van Buren’s Cruel Enforcement Of A “treaty” That Forced The Cherokee Nation Out Of Their Homelands Along What Would Be Called The Trail Of Tears. O’reilly And Dugard Take Readers Behind The Legends To Reveal Never-before-told Historical Moments In The Fascinating Creation Story Of America. This Fast-paced, Wild Ride Through The American Frontier Will Shock Readers And Impart Unexpected Lessons That Reverberate To This Day.
Soft Rain: A Story of the Cherokee Trail of Tears
In Soft Rain, a 9-year-old Cherokee girl finds herself in the same situation as Sweet Leaf as soldiers arrive one day to take her and her mother to walk the Trail of Tears, leaving the rest of her fam...ily behind. It all begins when Soft Rain's teacher reads a letter stating that as of May 23, 1838, all Cherokee people are to leave their land and move to what many Cherokees called "the land of darkness". . .the west. Soft Rain is confident that her family will not have to move, because they have just planted corn for the next harvest. Because Soft Rain knows some of the white man's language, she soon learns that they must travel across rivers, valleys, and mountains. On the journey, she is forced to eat the white man's food and sees many of her people die. Her courage and hope are restored when she is reunited with her father, a leader on the Trail, chosen to bring her people safely to their new land. Soft Rain, a nine-year-old Cherokee girl, is forced to relocate, along with her family, from North Carolina to the West.
Pushing the Bear
in A Novel That “retains The Complexity, Immediacy, And Indirection Of A Poem,” Glancy Brings To Life The Cherokees’ 900-mile Forced Removal To Oklahoma In 1838 And Gives Us “a... Powerful Witness To One Of The Most Shameful Episodes In American History” (los Angeles Times).publishers Weeklypoet, Dramatist, Short-story Writer And Essayist Glancy (winner Of An American Book Award For Claiming Breath) Turns Her Talents To The Novel, Recreating In This Bone-true Tale The Sorrow, Struggle And Betrayal Suffered By The Cherokee Along The Trail Of Tears. In The Winter Of 1838-39, 13,000 Cherokee Were Forced To Walk The Trail Of Tears From North Carolina Toward The New Territory Of Present-day Oklahoma. Following The Native American Belief That Many Voices Are Needed To Tell A Story, Glancy Employs A Multitude Of Narrators. There Are The Voices Of Cherokee Of All Ages And Clans, Of White Soldiers And Preachers, And Snatches From Actual Historical Records. The Central Narrator, Maritole, Emerges To Tell Her Personal Story Of Pushing The Bear, A Dark Heavy Burden Of Anger, Impending Madness, Physical Distress And, Above All, Doubt In Herself And Her Heritage As She Perseveres In The Grueling Walk. Maritole's Shaky Relationship With Her Husband, And The Deaths Of Her Baby And Parents, Push Her Into A Relationship With A White Soldier, Sergeant Williams. Ultimately, However, He Can't Fathom The Cherokees' Mystic, Symbiotic Relationships With The Land And With Each Other. At Times, The Novel Proceeds As Slowly As The March Itself, But It Rewards The Reader With A Visceral, Honest Presentation Of The Cherokee Conception Of Story As The Indestructible Chain Linking People, Earth And Ancestrya Link That Becomes, If Not Unmitigated Salvation, Then Certainly A Salve To The Spirit. (aug.)
The Journal of Jesse Smoke : A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838 (My Name Is America)
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 Givi...ng Details Of The Removal. By Joseph Bruchac. Map On Folded Page At End.
Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
One fall morning Jerry Ellis donned a backpack and began a long, lonely walk: retracing the Cherokee Trail of Tears, the nine hundred miles his ancestors had walked in 1838. The trail was the agonizin...g path of exile the Cherokees had been forced to take when they were torn from their southeastern homeland and relocated to Indian Territory. Following in their footsteps, Ellis traveled through small southern towns, along winding roads, and amid quiet forests, encountering a memorable array of people who live along the trail today. Along the way he also came to glimpse the pain his ancestors endured and to learn about the true beauty of modern rural life and the worth of a man's character. KLIATT Many people have heard the phrase trail of tears without realizing what it refers to. It is an apt description of the path of those peaceful Cherokee who were forced to leave their farms in Georgia and march on a trail of death to what is now Oklahoma. Their journey has haunted American history, moving those who hear of it to more tears. It is something that permeates the memory of all the ancestors of those who survived. Jerry Ellis, of Cherokee ancestry, wished to honor those ancestors by reversing their travels from Oklahoma to Georgia (and finally to his rural home in northern Alabama). His goal was to walk and camp the whole way, taking in the land and the people as he went. Walking the Trail is not a diary exactly, nor history (although history is scattered along the way). It is more of a meditative catharsis. It is low key, yet heartfelt. Or is he trying to tell me something else? I've been in Tahlequah only four days, but already time and space are taking on new dimensions. I was zapped by a child practicing sorcery. I was the house guest of an anthropologist whose past girlfriend could become an owl... Definitely not short on intrigue, I push down on the Trail and Tahlequah disappears around the bend (p. 42). For those with an interest in the subject or those who enjoy personal, intimate travel memoirs, this would be a nice choice. For public and academic libraries. Category: Travels. KLIATT Codes: SA—Recommended for senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 1991, Univ. of Nebraska, Bison Books, 256p. map., Ages 16 to adult. Reviewer: Katherine E. Gillen; Libn., Luke AFB Lib., AZ
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series
Documents The 1830s Policy Shift Of The U.s. Government Through Which It Discontinued Efforts To Assimilate Native Americans In Favor Of Forcibly Relocating Them West Of The Mississippi, And Traces Th...e Decision's Specific Effect On The Cherokee Nation. In The Early Nineteenth Century, The U.s. Government Shifted Its Policy From Trying To Assimilate American Indians To Relocating Them, And Proceeded To Forcibly Drive Seventeen Thousand Cherokees From Their Homelands. This Journey Of Exile Became Known As The Trail Of Tears. Historians Perdue And Green Reveal The Government's Betrayals And The Divisions Within The Cherokee Nation, Follow The Exiles Along The Trail Of Tears, And Chronicle The Hardships Found In The West. In Its Trauma And Tragedy, The Cherokee Diaspora Has Come To Represent The Irreparable Injustice Done To Native Americans In The Name Of Nation Building And In Their Determined Survival, It Represents The Resilience Of The Native American Spirit. -- Publisher's Description The Land And The People -- Civilizing The Cherokees -- Indian Removal Policy -- Resisting Removal -- The Treaty Of New Echota -- The Trail Of Tears -- Rebuilding In The West. Theda Perdue And Michael D. Green. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 179-180) And Index.
The Trail of Tears the Story of the American Indians
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The Trail of Tears: The Forced Removal of the Five Civilized Tribes
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Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears
from 1837 To 1838, Thousands Of Cherokee Indians Were Marched From Their Homelands In Georgia To Exile In Arkansas By The Same White Men They Has Once Befriended. The Cherokees Journeyed Through Bitte...r Cold And Blazing Heat, With Little Food Or Water. One Out Of Every Four Died —- And With Them Died A Culture That Had Existed For Hundreds Of Years, A Civilization That Had Existed For Hundred Of Years, A Civilization That Had Embraced The White Man's Ways Only To Perish Through His Betrayal. Today, Only The Names Remain Of This Once Great Nation.children's Literaturebealer Originally Wrote This Story As A Television Documentary, Which Won An Associated Press Award. It Tells Of The Exile Of The Cherokee People From Their Homeland In The Appalachian Region Of Georgia. The Cherokees Had Lived There For Almost A Thousand Years, Had Developed A Great Civilization, And Had Adapted Well To The Influx Of Europeans And Their Customs. There Was, Of Course, Antagonism, And Eventually They Were Forced Off Their Land During The Unfriendly Presidency Of Andrew Jackson. They Were Removed To The West, And Most Walked The Thousand Or So Miles To Their 'new Home.' This Journey Is Now Known As The Trail Of Tears And Only Three In Four Made It Alive. Readers Will Learn About The Cherokee Nation-their Language, Government And Social Customs-before The Arrival Of Europeans. The Political Tensions Which Ultimately Led To The Exile, And The Journey Itself Are Then Discussed. This Telling Of This Tragic Part Of Us History Is Informative And Engaging. The Reader Is, However, Left Wondering About What Has Since Happened To These People. 1996 (orig.
