Living in the Land of Death: The Choctaw Nation, 1830-1860

by Donna Akers and Donna L. Akers

With the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the Choctaw people began their journey over the Trail of Tears from their homelands in Mississippi to the new lands of the Choctaw Nation. Suffering a death rate of nearly 20 percent due to exposure, disease, mismanagement, and fraud, they limped into Indian Territory, or, as they knew it, the Land of the Dead (the route taken by the souls of Choctaw people after death on their way to the Choctaw afterlife)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870136844
• ISBN13: 9780870136849
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"