The Cherokees lived primarily in the southeastern United States as farmers and hunters.
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears recounts this moment in American history and considers its impact on the Cherokee, on U.S.-Indian relations, and on contemporary society.
Richard L. Bushman, Neil Harris, David Rothman, Barbara Miller Solomon, and Stephan Thernstrom (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1979), 453; Willam G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton, NJ: Princeton ...
This work, however, traces the origins of the Cherokee people to the third century B.C.E. and follows their migrations through the Americas to their homeland in the lower Appalachian Mountains.
Complicating the situation even further, Cherokee men fought for the Union as well as the Confederacy and created their own “brothers’ war.” This book offers a broad overview of the war as it affected the Cherokees—a social history ...
A comprehensive history of the Cherokee Nation, tracing their origin, relations with other native tribes, missionaries, and settlers, forced migration to Oklahoma in the 1830s, and participation in the Civil War.
A history of the Cherokee Indians, from conjectures about their possible origin of these peoples, to events in the early 1900s.
Six celebrated Eastern Cherokee storytellers present 72 traditional and contemporary tales, including animal stories, ghost stories, histories, and legends. The first major collection of Cherokee stories in nearly a century.
Oklahoma City: Oklahoma His— torical Society. Holm, Tom, Diane Pearson, and Ben Chavis. 2003. ”A Model for the Extension of Sovereignty in American Indian Studies.” Wicazo Sa Review 18(1): 7-24. Holmes, Ruth, and Betty Sharp Smith.
In the world of Native Americans, oral communication takes the place of the written word in preserving their most valued “texts.” By a miracle of transmission, here is the earliest and most authenticated version of the story of the ...
John Wolfe. Sec. Johnson Owl. Tran. Sec. Daliskie C. Calahoun. A committee of two was appointed to meet the founder of this organization at Cherokee in order to set the time these meetings will be held. The days being set every two ...