Explores the Indian Removal Act and its effects. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and a "Voices from the Past" feature make this book an exciting and informative read.
Provides a history of the removal of Native Americans from their land by the white Americans, discussing the hardships they faced, and the background of their removal.
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 ...
Provides a brief history of the removal by white Americans of the Cherokee peoples from their eastern homeland to the Indian Territory now known as Oklahoma.
"Explains the Trail of Tears, including its chronology, causes, and lasting effects"--
This book is an insightful and honest exploration of this dark chapter in Native American history.
McIntosh had brought along several Creek chiefs, all well dressed and mounted, and they received a handsome reception from the major. McIntosh was escorted to the White Bench reserved for special guests, those held in the highest esteem ...
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 ...
On their tortuous trek west many died. These routes, lined with graves, mark the tragedy now known today as The Trail of Tears, commemorated as a National Historic Trail.
The Other Trail of Tears: The Removal of the Ohio Indians by award-winning historian Mary Stockwell tells the story of this region's historic tribes as they struggled following the death of Tecumseh and the unraveling of his tribal ...
This is an account of the privations of these forced relocations and the indifference of the U.S. government and the majority of Americans to the suffering they caused to the Native American people. This is the story of the Trail of Tears.