Cherokee Boy

It is 1838. The Army has orders to remove the Cherokee nation from Georgia and the Carolinas so that white settlers can take over the Indians' rich land. While his father and other important men of the tribe are in Washington to appeal this harsh sentence, fifteen-year-old Tsi-ya, the Otter, has been hurriedly sent to the Secret Place of the wise man of the Cherokees. Tsi-ya reaches the hidden valley where the sage lives. But when he returns with word for his people to seek refuge in the Secret Place the soldiers have already arrived. Tsi-ya, with his mother and brother, is sent to the stockade. With relatives and friends he awaits the beginning of a long march west.