relocation

Provides comprehensive information on the forced removal of Native Americans from their homes to the Oklahoma Territory and its legacy.

Presents an account of the eviction of 16,000 Cherokee Indians from Georgia and their forced relocation to Oklahoma in 1838.

Profiles the "Trail of Tears," the forced removal of five Southeastern Native American tribes to land west of the Mississippi River during the winter of 1838 and 1839.

Presents descriptions of Japanese life in America before World War II, the evacuation, internment life, and legal challenges to the government's actions; primary documents; biographies of significant figures; a photographic essay; a chronology; and an annotated bibliography.

Tells the story of seventy-two chiefs and warriors from various Indian tribes who were imprisoned at an old Spanish fort in St. Augustine, Florida in 1875 after their tribes were conquered in the Red River War and forced onto reservations in what is now Oklahoma.

Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1,200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.

Presents a narrative overview of the relocation of Native Americans and the Wounded Knee Massacre; offers biographies of leading figures, such as Big Foot, Crazy Horse, George Armstrong Custer, and John Ross; and provides a variety of primary sources, including letters and memoirs.

Presents eighteen firsthand accounts of the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War, from a variety of viewpoints; also includes an introductory essay, a chronology, and a further reading list.