Investigations were made in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to determine whether the American Indians were the lost tribes of Judah; and it was pretty well proved both yes and no, and unprovable either way, which made it an excellent topic for study and exploitation, one populated by warm bodies and tearstained faces and beautiful, waiting children.
An edition of Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
(1988)
Trail of Tears
The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
by John Ehle
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Recounts the many broken U.S. treaties with the Cherokees, describes how they were forced to leave their lands in Tennessee, Georgia, and North Carolina, and looks at the hardships they faced on the trail west.
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
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Trail of tears: the rise and fall of the Cherokee nation
1989, Anchor Books, Doubleday
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"Investigations were made in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to determine whether the American Indians were the lost tribes of Judah; and it was pretty well proved both yes and no, and unprovable either way, which made it an excellent topic for study and exploitation, one populated by warm bodies and tearstained faces and beautiful, waiting children."
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