Book Description
Chronicles the rise of the Cherokee Nation and its rapid decline, focusing on the Ridge-Watie family and their experiences during the Cherokee removal.
Author : Thurman Wilkins
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 21,18 MB
Release : 1989-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806121888
Chronicles the rise of the Cherokee Nation and its rapid decline, focusing on the Ridge-Watie family and their experiences during the Cherokee removal.
Author : Thurman Wilkins
Publisher : London : Collier Macmillan
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 43,75 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN :
"The story of the Cherokee Removal - the tragic forced relocation in the 1830's of the entire tribe from its homeland in Southern Appalachia to the Oklahoma Territory." --
Author : Thurman Wilkins
Publisher :
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 1972
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Ehle
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 19,16 MB
Release : 2011-06-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0307793834
A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century, some of their leaders believed it was necessary to adapt to European ways in order to survive. Those chiefs sealed the fate of their tribes in 1875 when they signed a treaty relinquishing their land east of the Mississippi in return for promises of wealth and better land. The U.S. government used the treaty to justify the eviction of the Cherokee nation in an exodus that the Cherokee will forever remember as the “trail where they cried.” The heroism and nobility of the Cherokee shine through this intricate story of American politics, ambition, and greed. B & W photographs
Author : Andrea L. Rogers
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 41,82 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1496587146
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, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi.
Author : Daniel Blake Smith
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 142997396X
The fierce battle over identity and patriotism within Cherokee culture that took place in the years surrounding the Trail of Tears Though the tragedy of the Trail of Tears is widely recognized today, the pervasive effects of the tribe's uprooting have never been examined in detail. Despite the Cherokees' efforts to assimilate with the dominant white culture—running their own newspaper, ratifying a constitution based on that of the United States—they were never able to integrate fully with white men in the New World. In An American Betrayal, Daniel Blake Smith's vivid prose brings to life a host of memorable characters: the veteran Indian-fighter Andrew Jackson, who adopted a young Indian boy into his home; Chief John Ross, only one-eighth Cherokee, who commanded the loyalty of most Cherokees because of his relentless effort to remain on their native soil; most dramatically, the dissenters in Cherokee country—especially Elias Boudinot and John Ridge, gifted young men who were educated in a New England academy but whose marriages to local white girls erupted in racial epithets, effigy burnings, and the closing of the school. Smith, an award-winning historian, offers an eye-opening view of why neither assimilation nor Cherokee independence could succeed in Jacksonian America.
Author : Tracy Barrett
Publisher : Cover-To-Cover Informational B
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780780793217
Tells the story of the Cherokee Indians, from the Ice Age through the 20th Century.
Author : Theda Perdue
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 16,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780670031504
Documents the 1830s policy shift of the U.S. government through which it discontinued efforts to assimilate Native Americans in favor of forcibly relocating them west of the Mississippi, in an account that traces the decision's specific effect on the Cherokee Nation, U.S.-Indian relations, and contemporary society.
Author : Brian Hicks
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0802195997
“Richly detailed and well-researched,” this story of one Native American chief’s resistance to American expansionism “unfolds like a political thriller” (Publishers Weekly). Toward the Setting Sun chronicles one of the most significant but least explored periods in American history—the nineteenth century forced removal of Native Americans from their lands—through the story of Chief John Ross, who came to be known as the Cherokee Moses. Son of a Scottish trader and a quarter-Cherokee woman, Ross was educated in white schools and was only one-eighth Indian by blood. But as Cherokee chief in the mid-nineteenth century, he would guide the tribe through its most turbulent period. The Cherokees’ plight lay at the epicenter of nearly all the key issues facing America at the time: western expansion, states’ rights, judicial power, and racial discrimination. Clashes between Ross and President Andrew Jackson raged from battlefields and meeting houses to the White House and Supreme Court. As whites settled illegally on the Nation’s land, the chief steadfastly refused to sign a removal treaty. But when a group of renegade Cherokees betrayed their chief and negotiated their own agreement, Ross was forced to lead his people west. In one of America’s great tragedies, thousands died during the Cherokees’ migration on the Trail of Tears. “Powerful and engaging . . . By focusing on the Ross family, Hicks brings narrative energy and original insight to a grim and important chapter of American life.” —Jon Meacham
Author : Katie Marsico
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 34,99 MB
Release : 2010-01-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761446583
Explore the Trail of Tears, and with eyewitness accounts and commentary, learn about the differing viewpoints surrounding the event.