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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
46 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
203 p. : ill., col. map ; 20 cm.
Description
Jesse Smoke, a sixteen-year-old Cherokee, begins a journal in 1837 to record stories of his people and their difficulties as they face removal along the Trail of Tears. Includes a historical note giving details of the removal.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
388 pages cm
Description
"From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center"--
Author
Publisher
Cherokee Publications
Pub. Date
[1970]
Physical Desc
xiii, 160 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Description
"This is an in-depth look at the history and techniques used in making the arts and crafts of the Eastern Band of Cherokees. The text is accompanied by dozens of photographs showing artisans and their crafts. Crafts include Basketry, Pottery, Wood Crafts, Weaving, Stone Crafts"--Amazon.com.
Publisher
Rich-Heape Films
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A look at the forced relocation of Cherokee tribes by the United States government from their ancestral homelands (throughout the South) to Indian Territory (in present-day Oklahoma) from 1838-1839.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 421 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Description
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 principal chief, John Ross, to prevent their removal from their ancestral lands.
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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,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
421 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
Description
Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson--war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South--whose first major initiative as President instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. The other is...
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010], c2009.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (4 hr., 23 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their children and elders.
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"In the early 1800s, the US government forced Native Americans in the Southeast United States out of their homes and off of land they had occupied for thousands of years. The Trail of Tears takes a look at the shocking and tragic story of how Native Americans were affected by settlement in the United States."--Publisher's website.
Author
Publisher
John F. Blair, Publisher
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Three young women are drawn to the Chief Vann House Historic Site in Chatsworth, Georgia, where scenes of extreme cruelty and equally extraordinary compassion once played out. Jinx is exploring her tribe's complicated racial history. Ruth, a writer, is there on assignment. Cheyenne seeks to connect with a meaningful personal history. Together they discover the secrets of the Cherokee plantation, and find that attempts to connect with the strong spirits...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Description
In 1985, Wilma Pearl Mankiller became the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She had to convince her people that the chief should be the best person for the job, man or woman. Before the English came to what is now the United States, Cherokee women and men shared the leadership of the tribe. This created balance. But the English colonists told the Native People that men should be in charge. It stayed that way for many years, until...
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