Why did Cherokees move west?: and other questions about the Trail of Tears
(2011)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Lerner Publishing Group : Made available through hoopla, 2011
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780761363187 (electronic bk.) MWT11772536, 0761363181 (electronic bk.) 11772536
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
On May 26, 1838, U.S. soldiers surrounded Cherokee villages across Georgia. The soldiers came to force Cherokee families to move to a new territory in Oklahoma. The Cherokees had little time to gather their belongings before being herded into camps. From there, 13,000 were forced on the thousand-mile journey to Oklahoma. They had little food and no shelter from the weather. Many-especially children-grew sick and died. The forced march became known as nunna-dual-tsuny-the Trail of Tears
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