

Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Author: Theda Perdue, Michael Green
Narrator: George K. Wilson
Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/26/2007
Author: Theda Perdue, Michael Green
Narrator: George K. Wilson
Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/26/2007
Theda Perdue is the Atlanta Distinguished Professor Emerita of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of many books, including Sifters: Native American Women's Lives and Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. She is past president of the Southern Association for Women Historians and the American Society for Ethnohistory, and will serve as president of the Southern Historical Association in 2011.
I bought this desperately sad little book from an Indian village in North Carolina, home of the Eastern Cherokees who stayed in their homeland. It tells the story of one of the most shameful periods of the history of the United States, ethnic cleansing at its worst. The forced removal of this nation......more
The removal of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama to territory west of the Mississippi River in the 1830’s termed the Trail of Tears is a concept many are vaguely aware of, but few are intimately familiar with. It stands as one of the most blatant violations of......more