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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Theda Perdue
By (author) Michael Green
Introduction by Colin Calloway
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 189,Width 126
Category/GenreHistory
ISBN/Barcode 9780143113676
ClassificationsDewey:975.00497557
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint Penguin USA
Publication Date 24 June 2008
Publication Country United States

Description

In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. Historians Perdue and Green reveal the government's betrayals and the divisions within the Cherokee Nation, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle the hardships found in the West. In its trauma and tragedy, the Cherokee diaspora has come to represent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in the name of nation building-and in their determined survival, it represents the resilience of the Native American spirit.

Author Biography

Theda Perdue is the professor emerita within the history department at University of North Carolinaat 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 Greenis 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 Callowayis a British Americanhistorian.He is the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and a professor of Native American Studies atDartmouth College.

Reviews

" With a rich sense of Cherokee culture and history . . . the authors . . . recount a human story, not only tragic but also unbelievably heroic."-Los Angeles Times