Powerful....The Trail of Tears is an unrelenting narrative, sometimes poetic and sometimes heartbreaking. Of Eastern America's prelude to wounded knee. A dreadful chapter in American History. The United States Congress passed a bill in 1830 for the forcible removal of those Indian tribes living east of the Mississippi and their resettlement in the West. Over the next twenty years, and on brutal forced migrations, thousands of Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, Seminoles, Shawnees, Delawares, Senecas, and other nations perished from cold, hunger, and white men's diseases. @ View More...
Insightful, rarely told history of Native American courage in the face of White expansionism in the 19th century. Truth-telling tale of the ruthless brutality that forced the Native American population into resettlement camps and reservations, with a look at the few white Americans who fought to help them. 356 pages, indexed. View More...
