History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore
Author: Emmet Starr
Publisher:
Published: 1922
Total Pages: 690
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes treaties, genealogy of the tribe, and brief biographical sketches of individuals.
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The Cherokee Diaspora
Author: Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-09-29
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0300216580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement, Gregory Smithers uncovers the origins of the Cherokee diaspora and explores how communities and individuals have negotiated their Cherokee identities, even when geographically removed from the Cherokee Nation headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Beginning in the eighteenth century, the author transports the reader back in time to tell the poignant story of the Cherokee people migrating throughout North America, including their forced exile along the infamous Trail of Tears (1838–39). Smithers tells a remarkable story of courage, cultural innovation, and resilience, exploring the importance of migration and removal, land and tradition, culture and language in defining what it has meant to be Cherokee for a widely scattered people.
History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore
Author: Emmet Starr
Publisher:
Published: 2012-04-10
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 9781462293162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHardcover reprint of the original 1921 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9. No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. For quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: Starr, Emmet. History of The Cherokee Indians And Their Legends And Folk Lore. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: Starr, Emmet. History of The Cherokee Indians And Their Legends And Folk Lore, . Oklahoma City, Okla., The Warden Company, 1921. Subject: Cherokee Indians History
The Last Cherokee Warriors
Author: Philip Steele
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 1905
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9781455607211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of two Cherokee men and the personal hardships they faced against the US government in the nineteenth century. The expanding American frontier in the late 1800s created a battleground on which white and Indian cultures inevitably clashed. Slowly and inexorably the Native Americans were pushed from their land and stripped of their birthright. This engrossing volume documents the lives of the last Cherokee warriors—Ned Christie and Ezekiel Proctor—two angry men who struggled against the tide of history and the power of the United States government to slow the encroaching whites and preserve their Cherokee heritage.
Oklahoma Black Cherokees
Author: Ty Wilson & Karen Coody Cooper
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1625859953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the generations, Cherokee citizens became a conglomerate people. Early in the nineteenth century, tribal leaders adapted their government to mirror the new American model. While accommodating institutional slavery of black people, they abandoned the Cherokee matrilineal clan structure that once determined their citizenship. The 1851 census revealed a total population nearing 18,000, which included 1,844 slaves and 64 free blacks. What it means to be Cherokee has continued to evolve over the past century, yet the histories assembled here by Ty Wilson, Karen Coody Cooper and other contributing authors reveal a meaningful story of identity and survival.
Slavery in the Cherokee Nation
Author: Patrick Neal Minges
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1135942072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work explores the dynamic issues of race and religion within the Cherokee Nation and to look at the role of secret societies in shaping these forces during the nineteenth century.
Chief Bowles and the Texas Cherokees
Author: Mary Whatley Clarke
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2003-09-01
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780806134369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: University of Oklahoma Press, 1971.
Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906
Author: James W. Parins
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2013-11-04
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 0806151226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany Anglo-Americans in the nineteenth century regarded Indian tribes as little more than illiterate bands of savages in need of “civilizing.” Few were willing to recognize that one of the major Southeastern tribes targeted for removal west of the Mississippi already had an advanced civilization with its own system of writing and rich literary tradition. In Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906, James W. Parins traces the rise of bilingual literacy and intellectual life in the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century—a time of intense social and political turmoil for the tribe. By the 1820s, Cherokees had perfected a system for writing their language—the syllabary created by Sequoyah—and in a short time taught it to virtually all their citizens. Recognizing the need to master the language of the dominant society, the Cherokee Nation also developed a superior public school system that taught students in English. The result was a literate population, most of whom could read the Cherokee Phoenix, the tribal newspaper founded in 1828 and published in both Cherokee and English. English literacy allowed Cherokee leaders to deal with the white power structure on their own terms: Cherokees wrote legal briefs, challenged members of Congress and the executive branch, and bargained for their tribe as white interests sought to take their land and end their autonomy. In addition, many Cherokee poets, fiction writers, essayists, and journalists published extensively after 1850, paving the way for the rich literary tradition that the nation preserves and fosters today. Literary and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 takes a fascinating look at how literacy served to unite Cherokees during a critical moment in their national history, and advances our understanding of how literacy has functioned as a tool of sovereignty among Native peoples, both historically and today.
Capture These Indians for the Lord
Author: Tash Smith
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2014-09-18
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0816598614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1844, on the heels of the final wave of the forced removal of thousands of Indians from the southern United States to what is now Oklahoma, the Southern Methodist Church created a separate organization known as the Indian Mission Conference to oversee its missionary efforts among the Native communities of Indian Territory. Initially, the Church conducted missions as part of the era’s push toward assimilation. But what the primarily white missionaries quickly encountered was a population who exerted more autonomy than they expected and who used Christianity to protect their culture, both of which frustrated those eager to bring Indian Territory into what they felt was mainstream American society. In Capture These Indians for the Lord, Tash Smith traces the trajectory of the Southern Methodist Church in Oklahoma when it was at the frontlines of the relentless push toward western expansion. Although many Native people accepted the missionaries’ religious practices, Smith shows how individuals found ways to reconcile the Methodist force with their traditional cultural practices. When the white population of Indian Territory increased and Native sovereignty came under siege during the allotment era of the 1890s, white communities marginalized Indians within the Church and exploited elements of mission work for their own benefit. Later, with white indifference toward Indian missions peaking in the early twentieth century, Smith explains that as the remnants of the Methodist power weakened, Indian membership regained control and used the Church to regenerate their culture. Throughout, Smith explores the complex relationships between white and Indian community members and how these phenomena shaped Methodist churches in the twentieth century.
A Biobibliography of Native American Writers, 1772-1924
Author: Daniel F. Littlefield
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9780810818026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers works written in English by American Indians and Alaska natives from Colonial times to 1924.
