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  • Published: 24 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143113676
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $34.99
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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears



In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears.

Historians Perdue and Green reveal the government's betrayals and the divisions within the Cherokee Nation, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle the hardships found in the West. In its trauma and tragedy, the Cherokee diaspora has come to represent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in the name of nation building-and in their determined survival, it represents the resilience of the Native American spirit.

  • Published: 24 June 2008
  • ISBN: 9780143113676
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $34.99
Categories:

About the authors

Michael Green

Michael Green, as well as writing popular crime thrillers, is a successful computer consultant and professional speaker. Author of three nonfiction books, he has also won many speechmaking competitions. He currently spends some of his time in the UK, some in New Zealand, and some on the water on his yacht, writing.

His thriller trilogy — Blood Line, Blood Bond and Blood Roots — has been internationally acclaimed. The Lonely Reviewer described Blood Line as ‘one hell of an idea, executed well’, written in a writing style that is ‘hard out, full on’.