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Trail of Tears chronicles the U.S. government’s enforcement of broken treaties with the Cherokee people, detailing the forced relocation from Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina to the western territories. It examines the physical, emotional, and cultural hardships faced by the Cherokee on the arduous journey west, and situates the event within the broader context of Indian removal policies in the nineteenth-century United States.
First publish date: 1988
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: John Ehle
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