Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina rez and tinctures

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They also share traumatic memories

Initially met with silence and indifference

with an introduction by editor Drew Hayden Taylor

From Helen Hunt Jackson to Angie Debo

Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina rez and tincturesThe remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears During the 1838 forced Cherokee removal by the US government, a number of close knit Cherokee communities in the Southern Appalachian Mountains refused to relinquish their homelands, towns, and way of life. Using a variety of tactics, hundreds of Cherokees avoided the encroaching US Army and remained in the region. In his book Their