{"product_id":"the-cherokee-nation-and-the-trail-of-tears-9780143113676","title":"The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears","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 their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Historians Perdue and Green reveal the government's betrayals and the divisions within the Cherokee Nation, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle the hardships found in 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheda Perdue\u003c\/b\u003e is the professor emerita within the history department at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her works include \u003ci\u003eCherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of several fellowships and grants, including those from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Newberry Library, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Perdue received her MA and PhD from University of Georgia. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Green \u003c\/b\u003eis a London-based writer who previously taught economics at Warsaw University and was a senior official in the British government. He is the coauthor (with Matthew Bishop) of \u003ci\u003ePhilanthrocapitalism.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eColin Calloway\u003c\/b\u003e is a British American historian. He is the John Kimball, Jr. 1943 Professor of History and a professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50459946844434,"sku":"9780143113676","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b4ed3f36-4f8c-44f1-befe-716c8be0f748.jpg?v=1730017271","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-cherokee-nation-and-the-trail-of-tears-9780143113676","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}