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Author: Theda Perdue

📘 The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears by Theda Perdue

Theda Perdue, a Guggenheim Fellowship‑winning historian, and co‑author Michael D. Green explore the 1830 policy shift by the U.S. government that moved the Cherokee away from their ancestral lands in the southern Appalachians to eastern Oklahoma. They detail the forced march of seventeen thousand Cherokee across the Mississippi, the hardships faced along the Trail of Tears, and the difficult years the exiles endured after reaching the West. The book also considers the broader impact of this displacement on Cherokee culture, U.S.–Indian relations, and contemporary society.

First publish date: 2007

Genre: History/Modern History

Authors: Theda Perdue

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