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In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from wanting to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from other homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears.
Historians Perdue and Green reveal the federal government?s betrayals and the divisions within the Cherokee Nation, follow the exiles across the Trail of Tears, and chronicle the hardships within the West. In its trauma and tragedy, the Cherokee diaspora has come to represent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in the name of nation building?and in their determined survival, it represents the resilience of the Native American spirit.