Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

Name: Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Author: Theda Perdue
ISBN: 9781428198784

Author: Theda Perdue, Michael Green

Series: Library of American Indian History

Narrator: George K. Wilson

Unabridged: 5 hr 25 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 11/26/2007

Categories: Nonfiction, History, Native & Indigenous History, Native & Indigenous Nonfiction, Us History, Social Science, Native American Studies

Synopsis

Acclaimed historians Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green paint a moving portrait of the infamous Trail of Tears. Despite protests from statesmen like Davy Crockett, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay, a dubious 1838 treaty drives 17,000 mostly Christian Cherokee from their lush Appalachian homeland to barren plains beyond the Mississippi. For 4,000, this brutal forced march leads only to their death.

About Theda Perdue

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sherrie

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

Goodreads review by Todd

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