Pushing the bear

Pushing the Bear by Diane Glancy

Pushing the Bear is a historical novel published in 1996. It follows the lives of Cherokee families when they were forced from their homes in 1838 to 1839 to walk 900 miles along The Trail of Tears to Oklahoma, so that white settlers could obtain gold and new land. The novel follows confusion, despair, and turmoil, as a new nation emerges after the Removal.