Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee" is highly recommended for anyone who is interested with the tragic stories of the native Americans.

Thanks for the clip Bookchick.

"They were detained by the U.S. military, and then moved away from
their homes to open the area for settlement by a whole different
population. That fits the bill for describing ethnic cleansing as well
as anything I can think of."

"These objects suggest that the lifestyle of the Cherokee on one hand
was surprisingly modern and westernized but that they were still very
distinctive and native,"

A small group of Cherokee signed a treaty in 1835 agreeing to leave
their lands. Although the group didn't represent the entire Cherokee
Nation, the U.S. government used the treaty as justification for
rounding up the Indians and forcing them to move to what is now
Oklahoma.

"There's this idea that America is a place where this type of thing
couldn't happen," Eastman said. "We think of ethnic cleansing as
happening in the former Soviet bloc. It's important to understand that
not only could it happen here, but it has happened here."