The Trail of Tears The American Indian Removals, 1813-55

Introduction: Holy Ground 1. Tahlonteskee Goes West and Quitewepea Brings an Invitation 2. Jacksa Chula Harjo Makes a Law 3. ‘Drunk, Sober, or Sick, We Will Move Them Along 4. ‘Under the Pressure of Hunger’ 5. The Lost Prince 6. Ma-Kka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak Goes to War 7. A Gathering of Vultures 8. The Road to Clear Boggy 9. The Life and Dath of Ma-to-toh-pe 10. Apostle to the People of Fire 11. White Bird’s Last Stand 12. Asi-Yaholo Makes a Promise 13. Pascofa Takes the Cup 14. Prayers for the White Chief 15. The Munificent Mr. Manypenny 16. Sir St. George Gore Goes Hunting. Appendix: Selected Government Documents on Indian Removal.

Biography

Gloria Jahoda (1926–1980) was much less concerned with the politics or circumstances of a particular time and place than she was of the people who inhabited the time and place. Her books all focus on human character, endurance, success and failure, without which physical surroundings are ultimately sterile. As a result much of her writing is timeless. 

Original Reviews of The Trail of Tears:

‘The strength of The Trail of Tears Is that it distributes literary attention beyond the so-called Five Civilised Tribes by pointing out that tribes residing in the Old Northwest and the Mississippi Valley also suffered immensely From this merciless uprooting and relocation.’ Arrell Morgan Gibson Western Historical Quarterly Volume 9 Issue 1 (1978).

‘A highly readable, well researched, and altogether fascinating account of a dreadful chapter in American history. Ms Jahoda’s scholarship is evident, yet it never gets in the way of her story and her outrage.’ Peter Farb

‘Powerful…The Trail of Tears is an unrelenting narrative – sometimes poetic, sometimes heartbreaking – of Eastern America’s prelude to Wounded Knee.’ Dee Brown