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Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
An examination of the pervasive effects of the Cherokee nation's forced relocation considers the tribe's inability to acclimate to white culture and explores key roles played by Andrew Jackson, Chief John Ross, and Elias Boudinot.
Author
Series
Publisher
Childrens Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Describes the Federal government's seizure of Cherokee lands in Georgia and the forced migration of the Cherokee Nation to Oklahoma along the route that came to be known as the Trail of Tears.
Author
Publisher
Roberts Rinehart in cooperation with the Council for Indian Education
Pub. Date
[1993]
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Annie Rising Fawn Stuart is sent to live with her uncle, a wealthy Cherokee plantation owner in Georgia, where she befriends a young slave girl and is caught up in the tragic events surrounding the forced Indian removal in 1838.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.