title: Agatahi: The Cherokee Trail of Tears: A People's Resistance Against the Forced Removal from their Southeast Homeland as Related in their Own Words
author:  W. Jeff Bishop 
description: W. Jeff Bishop served for many years as president of the Georgia chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, heading up National Park Service-funded research projects investigating Cherokee Removal fort site archaeology and the history of the Chief John Ross House and Running Waters Council Ground. He also developed the Georgia Trail of Tears National Historic Trail brochure. He has a Master's degree in public history and certification in Museum Studies from the University of West Georgia and currently serves on the Friends of New Echota board of directors. He was recently appointed by the governor to serve on the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council. He serves as executive director of the Newnan-Coweta Historical Society and lives with his wife and five children in Newnan, Georgia.
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  Endorsements
  
  
  I burned with anger at the cruelty of U.S. troops, turned the page and wept
  with the hero’s anguish, opened the next chapter and laughed out loud at the
  trick played by his friend.
  
  
  While troops push their people from their homeland onto a tragic journey of
  starvation and disease, John Ross and Bold Hunter show desperate deeds of
  faithfulness and love.
  
  
  Set against the backdrop of the Cherokee removal, Trail of Tears brings us
  close to the suffering and gives us glimpses of hope. This story is history in
  its finest fictional form, a strong tale, told by a master storyteller.
  
  
  —David Warner Parks, PhD
  
  
  What if you were uprooted by the government, had your land and home seized,
  and were forced under armed guard to make a grueling, dangerous and insulting
  journey to a strange and wild region?
  
  
  In Trail of Tears, Anne Greene well captures this tragedy that was inflicted
  on the Cherokee people in the southern A