The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears: The Penguin Library of American Indian History series by Theda Perdue, Michael Green
English | July 5th, 2007 | ISBN: 0143113674 | 208 pages | EPUB | 3.59 MB
Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the Mississippi.