Synopses & Reviews
A detailed examination of the pervasive effects of the Cherokee nation's forced relocation considers the tribe's continuing inability to acclimate to white culture and explores key roles played by such figures as Andrew Jackson, Chief John Ross and dissenter Elias Boudinot. By the award-winning author of The Shipwreck that Saved Jamestown.
About the Author
Daniel Blake Smith is the author of An American Betrayal, The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown, Inside the Great House: Planter Family Life in Eighteenth Century Chesapeake Society, and many articles on early American history. Formerly a professor of colonial American history at the University of Kentucky, Smith now lives in St. Louis where he works as a screenwriter and filmmaker.
Table of Contents
Becoming "civilized" -- Outrage in Cornwall -- Removal -- The "white man's weapon" -- New Echota -- Roundup -- The trail of tears -- Blood revenge.