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Book Review of The Journal of Jesse Smoke : A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838 (My Name Is America)

The Journal of Jesse Smoke : A Cherokee Boy, Trail of Tears, 1838 (My Name Is America)
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The Cherokees call The Trail of Tears Nunda¹utsun¹yi, or ³The Place Where the People Cried.² In Joseph Bruchac¹s Scholastic debut, Jesse Smoke, his mother, and his sisters are forced to abandon their home, their land, and their possessions when they and several thousand other Cherokees are forced west on The Trail of Tears.

Great Historical Gift book but a sad story of the Cherokee forced to leave their land.