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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

By Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green
Edited by Colin G. Calloway

By Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green
Edited by Colin G. Calloway

By Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green
Edited by Colin G. Calloway

By Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green
Edited by Colin G. Calloway

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Jun 24, 2008 | ISBN 9780143113676

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    About The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

    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.

    About The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

    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.

    The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears recounts this moment in American history and considers its impact on the Cherokee, on U.S.-Indian relations, and on contemporary society. Guggenheim Fellowship-winning historian Theda Perdue and coauthor Michael D. Green 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.

    About Theda Perdue

    Theda Perdue is the professor emerita within the history department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her works include… More about Theda Perdue

    About Theda Perdue

    Theda Perdue is the professor emerita within the history department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her works include… More about Theda Perdue

    Product Details

    Category: Native American History

    Paperback | $17.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jun 24, 2008 | 208 Pages | 5 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780143113676

    Category: Native American History

    Ebook | $13.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jul 05, 2007 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9781101202340
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    Praise

    “ With a rich sense of Cherokee culture and history . . . the authors . . . recount a human story, not only tragic but also unbelievably heroic.”—Los Angeles Times

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