Chronicles the rise of the Cherokee Nation and its rapid decline, focusing on the Ridge-Watie family and their experiences during the Cherokee removal.

"The story of the Cherokee Removal - the tragic forced relocation in the 1830's of the entire tribe from its homeland in Southern Appalachia to the Oklahoma Ter

It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are fo

Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern O

Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a