The Cherokee Diaspora

The Cherokee Diaspora

Author: Gregory D. Smithers

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0300169604

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The 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.


The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

Author: Theda Perdue

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2007-07-05

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1101202343

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Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the Mississippi. 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. Guggenheim Fellowship-winning historian Theda Perdue and coauthor Michael D. Green explain the various and sometimes competing interests that resulted in the Cherokee?s expulsion, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle their difficult years in the West after removal.


Living Stories of the Cherokee

Living Stories of the Cherokee

Author: Barbara R. Duncan

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780807847190

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Traditional and modern stories by the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina reflect the tribe's religious beliefs and values, observations of animals and nature, and knowledge of history.


The Cherokee Nation

The Cherokee Nation

Author: Robert J. Conley

Publisher: UNM Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0826332358

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Robert Conley's history of the Cherokees is the first to be endorsed by the Cherokee Nation and to be written by a Cherokee.


Cherokees of the Old South

Cherokees of the Old South

Author: Henry Thompson Malone

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 0820335428

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First published in 1956, this book traces the progress of the Cherokee people, beginning with their native social and political establishments, and gradually unfurling to include their assimilation into “white civilization.” Henry Thompson Malone deals mainly with the social developments of the Cherokees, analyzing the processes by which they became one of the most civilized Native American tribes. He discusses the work of missionaries, changes in social customs, government, education, language, and the bilingual newspaper The Cherokee Phoenix. The book explains how the Cherokees developed their own hybrid culture in the mountainous areas of the South by inevitably following in the white man's footsteps while simultaneously holding onto the influences of their ancestors.


Cherokee Women

Cherokee Women

Author: Theda Perdue

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9780803235861

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Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. While building on the research of earlier historians, she develops a uniquely complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, arguing that Cherokee conceptions of gender persisted long after contact. Maintaining traditional gender roles actually allowed Cherokee women and men to adapt to new circumstances and adopt new industries and practices.


Old World Roots of the Cherokee

Old World Roots of the Cherokee

Author: Donald N. Yates

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 0786491256

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Most histories of the Cherokee nation focus on its encounters with Europeans, its conflicts with the U. S. government, and its expulsion from its lands during the Trail of Tears. 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. Using a combination of DNA analysis, historical research, and classical philology, it uncovers the Jewish and Eastern Mediterranean ancestry of the Cherokee and reveals that they originally spoke Greek before adopting the Iroquoian language of their Haudenosaunee allies while the two nations dwelt together in the Ohio Valley.


Cherokee Removal

Cherokee Removal

Author: William L. Anderson

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1992-06-01

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 082031482X

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Includes bibliographical references. Includes index.


Unto These Hills

Unto These Hills

Author: Kermit Hunter

Publisher:

Published: 2011-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780807868751

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Unto These Hills: A Drama of the Cherokee