Other editions of book My Name Is America: The Journal Of Jesse Smoke, A Cherokee Boy by Joseph Bruchac

When Jesse Smoke and his family are forced to leave their home, land, and belongings, they must journey west, along with several thousand other Cherokees, on The Trail of Tears.

The Cherokees call The Trail of Tears Nunda'utsun'yi, or "The Place Where the People Cried". In Joseph Bruchac's Scholastic debut, Jesse Smoke, his mother, and his sisters are forced to abandon their home, their land, and their possessions when they and several thousand other Cherokees are forced west on The Trail of Tears.

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