The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

TitleThe Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Publication TypeBook
Year of Publication2007
AuthorsPerdue, Theda, and Michael D. Green
Number of Pages189
PublisherViking
CityNew York
Abstract

Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the Mississippi. This volume recounts this moment in American history and considers its impact on the Cherokee, on U.S.-Indian relations, and on contemporary society. The authors explain the various and sometimes competing interests that resulted in the Cherokee's expulsion, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle their difficult years in the West after removal.

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