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The Trail of Tears and Indian removal

Greenwood guides to historic events 1500-1900
2007

Voices from the Trail of Tears

2003
Presents nearly thirty firsthand accounts of the Trail of Tears by the Cherokees who were removed and the politicians, soldiers, physicians, and missionaries who were involved in their removal or aided them along the way.

The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

2007
Describes the events and U.S. policies surrounding the Trail of Tears, during which thousands of Cherokee were forced to move west of the Mississippi, and examines this period's legacy for the Cherokee and for American society.

Trails of tears

American Indians driven from their lands
1972
Describes the white man's treatment and forcible displacement of five Indian nations of the Southwest--the Comanche, Cheyenne, Apache, Navajo, and Cherokee.

38 nooses

Lincoln, Little Crow, and the beginning of the frontier's end
2012
Examines the conflict between the Dakota Indians, and Minnesota settlers and soldiers in the 1860s. Describes how 303 Dakota warriors were found guilty of murder, and Abraham Lincoln personally intervened to save the lives of 265, making the hanging of thirty-eight warriors the largest government execution in American history. Profiles notable people in the struggle, and discusses the conflict within the larger framework of the Civil War.

The Trail of Tears

an American tragedy
2000
Traces the history of the Cherokee Indians from the Ice Age through the twentieth century, focusing on their forced removal by the U.S. government from their homeland in Georgia to Oklahoma Territory in 1839.

The Trail of Tears

2001
Text and illustrations describe the Trail of Tears--the eight-hundred-mile march of Cherokee Indians from Georgia to Oklahoma that was forced on them by the U.S. government in 1838--the events that led to it, and its aftermath.

The Trail of Tears

2005
Discusses the Indian Removal Act which was signed into law by President Andrew Jackson in 1829 and led to the forced relocation of the Cherokee people from their land and homes in the southeastern U.S., on a march to Oklahoma that cost the lives of thousands of Native Americans.

Remember my name

1993
Eleven-year-old Annie Rising Fawn Stuart is sent to live with her uncle, a wealthy Cherokee plantation owner in Georgia, where she befriends a young slave girl and is caught up in the tragic events surrounding the forced Indian removal in 1838.

The Long Walk

the forced Navajo exile
2008
Chronicles the events that led to the Navajo Nation's forced removal from their homeland to a reservation in eastern New Mexico in the 1860s, and discusses the lasting impact that relocation had on the Navajo psyche.

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