Resilence and Identity in Diane Galncy's Pushing the Bear

Abstract

This research work explores the identity and strong resilience of the Native American tribe, the Cherokee, in Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear. This work tries to find out vividly the circumstances of the Trail, causes of it and its impact upon the Cherokee people. What type of epidemic and stony condition, the Cherokee were compelled to face, this dissertation has tried to dig into. Approximately 4,000 out of 13,000 Cherokees had to sacrifice their lives insignificantly during the trail of tears. In this trail, the Cherokee people suffered not only from physical torture but also the mental disappointment since their culture was going to be fragmented. And this research analyses the writer’s emphasis on the Cherokee people’s culture based on the nature and genuine hope to reunite. And lastly, this thesis has tried to show how Glancy, as been a mixed-blooded Native American writer, has been stood against the suppression, oppression and domination of the whites over the Native Americans