This powerful narrative traces the social, cultural, and political history of the Cherokee Nation during the forty-year period after its members were forcibly removed from the southern Appalachians and resettled in what is now Oklahoma. In this master work, completed just before his death, William McLoughlin not only explains how the Cherokees rebuilt their lives and society, but also recounts their fight to govern themselves as a separate nation...

A black Cherokee slave struggles to overcome her desperate circumstances as she if forced to walk the Trail of Tears

Describes the Federal government's seizure of Cherokee lands in Georgia and the forced migration of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma along the route that came to be known as the Trail of Tears

Describes the government's seizure of Cherokee land in Georgia and the forced migration of the Cherokee Nation along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma

This sweeping American epic reveals the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States. Dramatic, far-reaching, and unforgettable, this book paints a portrait of these two inspirational leaders who worked together to lift their people to the height of culture and learning as the most civilized tribe in the nation, and then drop them to the depths of ruin and despair as they turned against...

Relates the history of the forced relocation of the Cherokee from Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina to Indian territory in Oklahoma and the struggle by their principle chief, John Ross, to prevent their removal from their ancestral lands

"Host Rainy Fields, an Indigenous Person from the Cherokee Nation, recounts the painful story of her Cherokee ancestors being forced off their land, displaced by the U.S. government--as were many other tribes, starting in 1830 under the Indian Removal Act. What effects did this have on the Indigenous People of that time, and what are the ramifications still affecting their descendants today? Indigenous History Professor Ethan Banegas (Kumeyaay, Barona...