An interesting read and a thorough account of the Cherokee nation and their contributions. One had little idea that the Indians were by 1800 or so vastly outnumbered by the white settlers in America. One understood that the land hunger of whites was insatiable but this book drives the point home; indeed, John Ross himself was thrown out of his own house. Andrew Jackson is presented less as a criminal than a pawn of the crazed whites in some of the frontier states. The discussion of the Trail of Tears puts some of the blame on Ross for not believing that Jackson would do what he said. ( )