Trail Of Tears Book Summary. “the trail of tears was a chain of forced relocations of multiple endemic native american tribes from their ancestral homeland. They left their way of life behind which they lost their land and their raison d’etre.
The rise and fall of the cherokee nation” a book where more than 18,000 indians were forced to move to oklahoma in a march known as the trail of tears, john ehle explains with details all the events that led to this happening. There are fourteen chapters in ehle’s book. The trail of tears was a concerted effort by the us government (spearheaded by andrew jackson) to eradicate native american peoples from lands that they had traditionally held for thousands of.
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Before becoming an author, ehle was.show more content… in exchange for reimbursement, it was negotiated by a cherokee leader, john ridge, who claimed to represent the cherokee nation when really, he spoke for only a small portion of the group. The bitter tale of the sad events that led inexorably to the final massacre at wounded knee began with the trail of tears. Every treaty left the indian tribes of the nation poorer, while the nation itself grew richer as it moved inexorably toward the civil war which would rend but not destroy it. Hausman has a lot of ideas going on about the modern resonances of painful history, connection to.