I live in North Georgia and used to visit Cherokee N.C.I used to wonder where little tree and his grandparents once lived. I read the story of little tree in the 1990s for the first time. the book I read said that he was with his grandparents in North Carolina and went to the Cherokee Nation supposedly Oklahoma.. the second book same title poke as if he lived with his grandparents in Tennessee .the movie says after his grandparents passed he went to live with willow John. but the most amazing thing that I learned here in 2020 Election year was that this book was a literary hoax who was a man named Asa Earl Cater who was a racist who grew up in Alabama who moved to Texas reinvented himself and took up a course with his GI bill from the Navy and began writing. I also learned that actual Cherokee Indians have never known him and things in that movie were not based how how Cherokee Natives actually speak