Only the names Remain Author:Bealer Only the Names Remain recounts the history of the Cherokees, their first meetings with white settlers and how they learned to work with them, the development of the Cherokee alphabet by Sequoyah, and their betrayal by President Andrew Jackson, their former ally. It was the Cherokees' misfortune that gold was discovered in their land and that th... more »e cotton gin was developed. Then the white man wanted the land for its precious gold and to grow cotton. Slowly the Cherokees were deprived of their rights and their land and were finally gathered together for the exile to Arkansas.« less