Mary and the Trail of Tears: A Cherokee Removal Survival Story is a historical fiction of a Cherokee girl named Mary and how she and her family survived the Trail of Tears.
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening. She does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, their Cherokee Nation home. She does not know the hardship she was about to venture that will historically been called The Trail of Tears. Why were the U.S. military soldiers trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them? And she why the soldier killed her grandfather? and how was she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi?
It would truly be a Trail of Tears…
Authored by Andrea L. Rogers. She is a Mom, citizen of the Cherokee Nation, writer, & teacher from Wichita, Caddo, Cherokee, Comancheria, TX. She was a graduate of the Low Rez program at the Institute for American Indian Arts. She teaches art at an all girls public school and is a mother of three daughters. She grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and currently lives in Forth Worth Texas where she serves on the board of the Fort Worth Public Library.
Illustrated by Matt Forsyth who is a freelance illustrator, concept artist, 3D modeller, texture artist and writer. He lives on Great Barrier Island, a little slice of heaven just off the coast of New Zealand.
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