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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
An examination of the pervasive effects of the Cherokee nation's forced relocation. Considers the tribe's continuing inability to acclimate to white culture and explores key roles played by such figures as Andrew Jackson, Chief John Ross and dissenter Elias Boudinot.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Priscilla is only four years old when her mother is sold to another master. All Priscilla has to remember her mother by are the hollyhocks she planted by the cow pond. At age ten, Priscilla is sold to a Cherokee family and continues her life as a slave. She keeps hope for a better life alive by planting hollyhocks wherever she goes. At last, her forced march along the Trail of Tears brings a chance encounter that leads to her freedom."-- provided...
Publisher
Rich-Heape Films
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a history of the Trail of Tears--the removal of the Cherokee people from their land by the white Americans--and discusses the hardships they faced and the reasons for their removal.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses events leading up to the removal of the Cherokee from their homelands, hardships faced on the Trail of Tears, challenges of the new territory in Oklahoma, and the Cherokee nation today.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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 principle chief, John Ross, to prevent their removal from their ancestral lands.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the early 1800s, white Americans sought out more lands. The 1830 Indian Removal Act allowed the US government to trade lands with Native Americans. But officials often forcibly removed Native peoples from their homelands. This book describes this period of forced removal and its lasting effects.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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,...
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"They were charismatic and forward thinking, imaginative and courageous, compassionate and resolute, and, at times, arrogant, vengeful and reckless. For hundreds of years, Native American leaders from Massasoit, Tecumseh, and Tenskwatawa, to Major Ridge, Geronimo, and Fools Crow valiantly resisted expulsion from their lands and fought the extinction of their culture. Sometimes, their strategies were militaristic, but more often they were diplomatic,...
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