In 1972 won an Associated Press award for a television documentary about the Georgia Cherokee , forcibly marched over the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory , since Oklahoma , during the 1830s under the administrations of U.S. Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren . This volume , '' Only the Names Remain : The Cherokees and The Trail of Tears '' , was re-released in 1996 as a children 's book . This book was published at a time of renewed interest in the historical plight of Native Americans in the United States
Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears
Alex W. Bealer