Walking the trail : one man's journey along the Cherokee trail of tears

by Jerry Ellis

Paper Book, 1991

Status

Available

Call number

E99 .C5E484 1991

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, 1991.

Description

The author, a Cherokee Indian, writes of his experience when he walked the nine hundred mile Trail of Tears in 1989.

User reviews

LibraryThing member juniperSun
A good book to read. Ellis shares just a bit of his own personal history but more of his immediate actions & responses to the people and nature he encounters on his walk from Tahlequah, OK to New Echota, GA. He is mostly encouraged by the helpfulness of strangers he meets along the way. His search
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for his connection with the Aniyun'Wiya (Cherokee) loses some of its power when the reader realizes he follows this book with one on his retracing the Pony Express Trail. He gives little pieces of events from the historical expulsion of the Cherokee from their homelands, so it helps if you've heard of the history before. There is a brief reference list cited at the end.
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Language

Original publication date

1991

Physical description

256 p.; 22 cm

ISBN

038530448X / 9780385304481

Barcode

34662000583481
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