Monuments to absence : Cherokee removal and the contest over Southern memory / Andrew Denson.

"In the 1830s, the United States forced the majority of Cherokees to leave their southeastern homeland for new territory in the West, an ordeal that caused the deaths of several thousand Cherokee people. This so-called Trail of Tears became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American...

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Main Author:	Denson, Andrew (Author)
Language:	English
Published:	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 > Public opinion. Cherokee people > Relocation > Public opinion. Collective memory > Southern States.
Physical Description:	xii, 289 pages ; 25 cm
Format:	Book