Katie, a journalism major in Chattanooga, is puzzled. Why is northwest Georgia filled with Indian place names but no Indians? Why is everyone ignorant of antebellum American History? Where did the Cherokee Indians go? Why did they leave Georgia? In Oklahoma, an old Cherokee woman gives Katie a journal written in northwest Georgia, 1820-1838, by an educated Cherokee woman. The journal was written where Katie was reared - when that part of Georgia was known as Cherokee Country. Katie is fascinated by the meticulous, well-written document and redoubles her efforts to understand Georgia history and discover the truth about the disappearance of the Cherokee.

"When does the thief legally own that which he stole?"--T.p.