Remember My Name

The Trail of Tears
Now that Annie Rising Fawn is eleven years old, her Cherokee grandmother feels it is time for Annie to get a real education. To do this, Annie must leave the only home she's ever known —Star Mountain—and go live with her uncle, William Blackfeather, a wealthy Cherokee land and slave owner. In her heart Annie knows her life will never be the same. Before leaving, Annie buries her doll in her favorite place, a sunflower house her Scottish father built for her. With the doll she buries her Cherokee name, Agin' agili.

But no one could ever imagine how much life was going to change for Annie and her people—the Cherokee nation. Annie soon finds herself caught up in one of the most shameful episodes in American history: the Indian Removal of 1838.