Full name: Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation

Author: John Ehle Year: 1988 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Native American, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385239547 0385239548

One of the many ironies of U.S. government policy toward Indians in the early 1800s is that it persisted in removing to the West those who had most successfully adapted to European values. As whites encroached on Cherokee land, many Native leaders responded by educating their children, learning English, and developing plantations. Such a leader was Ridge, who had fought with Andrew Jackson against the British. As he and other Cherokee leaders grappled with the issue of moving, the land-hungry Georgia legislatiors, with the aid of Jackson, succeeded in ousting the Cherokee from their land, forcing them to make the arduous journey West on the infamous "Trail of Tears." (Library Journal) Similar books: Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford The Killing of Crazy Horse by Thomas Powers In the Spirit of Crazy Horse by Peter Matthiessen The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Cheyenne Autumn by Mari Sandoz Once They Moved Like The Wind by David Roberts Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck The Greatest Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer Custer Died for Your Sins by Vine Deloria Jr. Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann Killing Custer by James Welch What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew by Daniel Pool Persian Fire by Tom Holland Under a Flaming Sky by Daniel James Brown SPQR by Mary Beard The Wars of the Roses by Dan Jones