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This powerful narrative traces the social, cultural, and political history of the Cherokee Nation during the forty-year period after its members were forcibly r

After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880

After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880

A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, c

Documents the 1830s policy shift of the U.S. government through which it discontinued efforts to assimilate Native Americans in favor of forcibly relocating the