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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (The Penguin Library of American Indian History) (Reprint Edition) by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green, Colin G. (Editor/Introduction) Calloway Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2008 ISBN-10: 0-14-311367-4 / 0143113674 ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311367-6 / 9780143113676 Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to |