Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears [Paperback]

Alex W. Bealer (Author), Kristina Rodanas (Illustrator)

Book Description

Grade Level: 3 and up

From 1837 to 1838, thousands of Cherokee Indians were marched from their homelands in Georgia to exile in Arkansas by the same white men they has once befriended. The Cherokees journeyed through bitter cold and blazing heat, with little food or water. One out of every four died --- and with them died a culture that had existed for hundreds of years, a civilization that had existed for hundred of years, a civilization that had embraced the white man's ways only to perish through his betrayal. Today, only the names remain of this once great nation.

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Only The Names Remain ($15.95, $3.95 paper; April 1996; 76 pp.; 0-316-08518-9, paper 0-316-08519-7): This history of the Cherokees in Georgia, originally published in 1972 and textually unrevised here, remains elegantly elegiac, bringing both clarity and immediacy to a complicated story. The book concisely covers the period from centuries before the arrival of the first white man in 1540, to the removal of most traces of the Cherokee Nation from Georgia after 1837, through the Trail of Tears, a journey that took one life in four among those who attempted it. This edition is newly embellished by Rodanas's black-and-white drawings, which soberly present Cherokee artifacts in full pages preceding each brief chapter and make this slender work even more accessible and vital to the chapter-book crowd than it was originally. (index) (Nonfiction. 8-12) -- Copyright ©1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (April 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316085197
• ISBN-13: 978-0316085199
• Product Dimensions: 5 x 0.2 x 7.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #562,855 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #80 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Children's Books > Reference & Nonfiction > General

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29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Roots, September 4, 2000

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Shannon (Eastern Washington, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears (School & Library Binding)

I have read the book Only The Names Remain many many times. I am of Cherokee blood and my roots are from Oklahoma. I was very interested in my history when I was younger and I found this book in my library. It tells so much about what has happened to the Cherokees throughout those tough years. While reading it to my Grandma she pointed out that my Great Great Great Grandfather was a Cherokee Chief and is talked about in the book. In the older versions there is also a black and white drawing of him. Because of this book, I can tell my grandchildren and my children the interesting story of how their grandfather saved President Andrew Jackson's life in a battle before he became president. I'm so glad that a book like this was written to tell both the good and the bad of the Cherokee life. It makes me wish that I could learn more and more about it.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hx of GA Cherokees, December 31, 2007

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Jill F. Pattiz "EducAunt" (GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and the Trail of Tears (School & Library Binding)

This is a terrific history of the GA Cherokee Indians. I use it in my lower elementary class. It seems to strike just the right chord with the 6,7,8 year olds.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful Reading, October 29, 2004

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Swampfoxer "[e-mail]" (Central Florida) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Only the Names Remain: The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears (Paperback)

I fully agree with Shannon, this book is a must for anyone wanting to see what was done to Native Americans in the South at the hands of whites and especially Andrew Jackson's policy of destruction of our people. We are trying to trace the family ancestry of a child (my great great grandmother) who was taken from a Trail of Tears family and "adopted" by a white preacher. She may have been saved from the Trail of Tears but not from the dispicable way in which she was treated during her lifetime subsequently. Shannon, I hope you email me!