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The Trail of Tears is the name used to describe the forced migration of the Cherokee people in the 1830s from their homelands in the southeastern United States to land in what s now Oklahoma. This devastating journey took the lives of thousands of Native Americans, and it s one of the most shameful chapters in American history. Detailed main text supported by enlightening sidebars and primary sources gives readers a clear picture of the reasons the...
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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.
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It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
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"The Trail of Tears was not a one-time event, but actually a 2-decade policy of relocating Native Americans to the West in forced marches. Young readers will learn history through the fictional journal entries of Awenasa, a young Cherokee girl"--Provided by publisher.
15) Cherokee Rose
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Looks at the history of the early assimilation of the Cherokee into the newly formed United States, and their later forced relocation along the Trail of Tears.
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Chronicles the history of the Cherokee since 1789, the Trail of Tears, and the conflict between those who refused to cede their ancestral lands to the United States and the Treaty Party which believed that a move away from encroaching white settlers would preserve Cherokee culture and sovereignty.
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Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drives 17,000 mostly Christian Cherokee from their lush Appalachian homeland to barren plains beyond the Mississippi. For 4,000, this brutal forced march leads only to their death.
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Describes the expansion of the United States, focusing on the settlers' conflicts with American Indian nations. Discusses broken treaties, acculturation, the work of U.S. Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, the Indian Removal Act, and the Trail of Tears. Also discusses how settlers moving into these lands brought slaves with them to work the land, beginning an era of slaveholding in the new nation. Includes a quiz with answer key, a glossary,...
20) Trail of tears
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In the 1800s, the US government relocated Cherokee and other Native peoples from the southeastern part of the US to a new Indian Territory, marching them along the Trail of Tears through hardship and death.