the Indian Removal Act of 1830, members of the Cherokee nation were rounded up, stockaded and forcibly marched for some 5,045 miles to present-day Oklahoma in a tragedy known as the Trail of Tears. This course examines the event through three different lenses: a high school history text, scholarly materials and a Cherokee point of view. We also draw on Frances Fitzgerald’s framework in her seminal book, America Revised (1979), to attempt to understand how cultural narratives of Indigenous Peoples are chronicled in schools.
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