It is February 1839, and the survivors of the Cherokee Trail of Tears have just arrived in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory.
How will they build anew from nothing? How will they plow fields of unbroken sod, full of rocks too heavy to lift? Can they put aside the pain and anger of Removal and find peace? "Pushing the Bear: After the Tr.
Now the Cherokee people confront an unknown future.
A quarter of the removed Indian population have died along the way, victims of cold, disease, and despair.
It is February 1839, and the survivors of the Cherokee Trail of Tears have just arrived in Fort Gibson, Indian Territory