# The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

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- Book: [The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears](https://www.bookquiver.com/theda-perdue/the-cherokee-nation-and-the-trail-of-tears) ([The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/theda-perdue/the-cherokee-nation-and-the-trail-of-tears.md))
- Authors: [Theda Perdue](https://www.bookquiver.com/theda-perdue), [Michael D. Green](https://www.bookquiver.com/michael-d-green), [Colin G. Calloway](https://www.bookquiver.com/colin-g-calloway)
- Publisher: penguin_books
- ISBN: 978-01-4311-367-6
- Pages: 208
- Published: 2008-06-24
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the early nineteenth century, the U. S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from...