The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

Theda Perdue · Michael D. Green

Jul 2007 · Sold by Penguin

About this ebook

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.

The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears recounts this moment in American history and considers its impact on the Cherokee, on U.S.-Indian relations, and on contemporary society. Guggenheim Fellowship-winning historian Theda Perdue and coauthor Michael D. Green explain the various and sometimes competing interests that resulted in the Cherokee?s expulsion, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle their difficult years in the West after removal.

Ratings and reviews

Factual Account of Cherokee History and Trail of Tears. A good compliment to historical nonfiction book "Trail of Tears, Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation"

About the author

Theda Perdue is the professor emerita within the history department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her works include Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 and The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. A recipient of several fellowships and grants, including those from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Newberry Library, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Perdue received her MA and PhD from University of Georgia.

Michael Green is a London-based writer who previously taught economics at Warsaw University and was a senior official in the British government. He is the coauthor (with Matthew Bishop) of Philanthrocapitalism.

Colin Calloway is a British American historian. He is the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and a professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College.