![]() ![]() The Guatemalan government began a crusade against the indigenous Mayan population of Guatemala, causing in response the formation of leftist rebel groups supported by the rural poor of Guatemala. ![]() ![]() The novel also includes the Guatemalan Refugee crisis of the 1970s and 80s that resulted from the Guatemalan Civil War. To this day, reservation life remains difficult as many Native American tribes struggle to receive the resources and support the United States government promised them in payment for the relocation, and poverty marks the lives of many reservation Native. Under the administration of President Andrew Jackson in 1838, thousands of Cherokee people were relocated from Georgia to a reservation in Oklahoma, an event called the Trail of Tears because of the harsh conditions and rampant disease that took the lives of over 4,000 Cherokee as they were forced to travel. Present day Oklahoma is home to large numbers of Cherokee Native Americans after the US governments’ Indian Removal efforts of the 1800s and early 1900s. Taylor Greer, the main protagonist of The Bean Trees, tries to raise Turtle, a young Cherokee girl who has been abandoned in Oklahoma. ![]()
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