"It's early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, a gold stash, and a preacher have all gone missing. Mrs. Cherokee America Singer, known as 'Check'--a wealthy farmer, mother of five boys, and soon-to-be widow--is not amused. The tension mounts and the violence escalates as Check's mixed-race family, friends, and neighbors come together to protect their community, and painfully expel one of...

A renowned journalist and cohost of NPR's Morning Edition presents a thrilling narrative history of President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Chief John Ross--two heroic yet tragically opposed men whose actions decided the fate of states and Indian nations in America at a moment of transition. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle...

Fifteen traditional tales follow the adventures of Rabbit, the Cherokee trickster.

Recounts how the Cherokees, after fighting to keep their land in the nineteenth century, were forced to leave and travel 1200 miles to a new settlement in Oklahoma, a terrible journey known as the Trail of Tears.