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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Description
A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral phases: the complex and elaborate societies that emerged and flourished in the Pre-Columbian period; the triple curse of disease, economic dependency, and political instability...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"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."--From publisher's website.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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,...
Author
Publisher
Childrens Press
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the Federal government's seizure of Cherokee lands in Georgia and the forced migration of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma along the route that came to be known as the Trail of Tears.
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the five tribes of Southeastern America, the Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole, especially their forcible removal in the 19th century to the Great Plains.
18) Remember my name
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Annie Rising Fawn Stuart is sent to live with her uncle, a wealthy Cherokee plantation owner in Georgia, where she befriends a young slave girl and is caught up in the tragic events surrounding the forced Indian removal in 1838.