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 ...
Crewes, Daniel and Richard W. Starbuck. 2010. Records of the Moravians among the Cherokees, Volume One, Early Contact and ... Evans, E. Raymond, ed. 1981. “Jedediah Morse's Report to the Secretary of War on Cherokee Indian Affairs in ...
Presents a brief history of the Cherokee Indians and describes their forced migration, which came to be known as the Trail of Tears, following the Indian Removal Act of 1830.
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.
This book covers a critical event in U.S. history: the period of Indian removal and resistance from 1817 to 1839, documenting the Cherokee experience as well as Jacksonian policy and Native-U.S. relations.
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.
Among the many tales of history and the white man's encounters with the American Indian, none is as bitter or shameful as the removal of more than 18,000 Cherokee from...
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.
Discusses defining moments in American history.
Discusses defining moments in American history.