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Cherokee legends and the Trail of Tears : from the nineteenth Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology / adapted by Thomas Bryan Underwood ; courtesy of the Museum of the Cherokee Indian ; cover design and illustrations by Amanda Crowe

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Author:: Underwood, Tom B Search this; Crowe, Amanda Search this; Burnett, John G (John Greenberry) 1810-1893 Removal of the Cherokees, 1838-1839 Search this; Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Search this; Museum of the Cherokee Indian Search this; Paul Cartwright Collection (Mississippi State University. Libraries) MsSM Search this

Physical description:: 32 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm

Type:: Folklore; Juvenile literature; Illustrated works; Myths and legends; Donors' copies (Provenance)

Place:: North Caroloina; North Carolina

Date:: 1956; ©1956

Notes:: "Includes the John Burnett version of the Cherokee removal."; NMAI copy 39088010016178 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Collection of Louise M. Moody, Donated by Helen M. Dodson.; NMAI copy 39088019628767 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema.

Summary:: The retelling of 11 Cherokee legends regarding the creation of the earth as well as tales involving animals and their place in nature. Also includes the story of the Cherokee removal and the Trail of Tears as told by John Burnett, an American soldier who accompanied the Cherokees west.

Topic:: Trail of Tears, 1838-1839 Search this; Cherokee Indians Search this

Call number:: E99.C5 C52 1956

Data Source:: Smithsonian Libraries

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