Cherokee Editor

Cherokee Editor

Author: Elias Boudinot

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0820318094

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This volume collects most of the writings published by the accomplished Cherokee leader Elias Boudinot, founding editor of the "Cherokee Phoenix". Mentions: Moravians, Spring Place, GA and missions.


Cherokee Editor, the Writings of Elias Boudinot

Cherokee Editor, the Writings of Elias Boudinot

Author: Elias Boudinot

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Published: 1983

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9780870493669

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This volume collects most of the writings published by the accomplished Cherokee leader Elias Boudinot (1804?-1839). Founding editor of the "Cherokee Phoenix," Boudinot is the most ambiguous and puzzling figure in Cherokee history. Although he first struggled against the removal of his people from their native Southeast, Boudinot later reversed his position and signed the Treaty of New Echota, an action that cost him his life. Together with Theda Perdue's biographical introduction and in-depth annotations, these letters, articles, pamphlets, and editorials document the stages of Boudinot's religious, philosophical, and political growth, from his early optimism that the Cherokees could completely assimilate into white society to his call for a separate nation of "civilized" Cherokees.


To Marry an Indian

To Marry an Indian

Author: Theresa Strouth Gaul

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2006-03-08

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0807876356

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When nineteen-year-old Harriett Gold, from a prominent white family in Cornwall, Connecticut, announced in 1825 her intention to marry a Cherokee man, her shocked family initiated a spirited correspondence debating her decision to marry an Indian. Eventually, Gold's family members reconciled themselves to her wishes, and she married Elias Boudinot in 1826. After the marriage, she returned with Boudinot to the Cherokee Nation, where he went on to become a controversial political figure and editor of the first Native American newspaper. Providing rare firsthand documentation of race relations in the early nineteenth-century United States, this volume collects the Gold family correspondence during the engagement period as well as letters the young couple sent to the family describing their experiences in New Echota (capital of the Cherokee Nation) during the years prior to the Cherokee Removal. In an introduction providing historical and social contexts, Theresa Strouth Gaul offers a literary reading of the correspondence, highlighting the value of the epistolary form and the gender and racial dynamics of the exchange. As Gaul demonstrates, the correspondence provides a factual accompaniment to the many fictionalized accounts of contacts between Native Americans and Euroamericans and supports an increasing recognition that letters form an important category of literature.


An Address to the Whites..

An Address to the Whites..

Author: Elias [From Old Catalog] Boudinot

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019569818

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Challenge your assumptions and expand your understanding of the complex and troubled history of race relations in America with An Address to the Whites, a powerful and thought-provoking work by Elias Boudinot. One of the first Native American lawyers and political leaders, Boudinot offers a searing critique of European American society and culture, highlighting the injustices and inequalities that have plagued the continent since its earliest days. With passion, eloquence, and insight, Boudinot calls on his readers to confront the harsh realities of their world and work towards a more just and equitable future. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Trail of Tears

Trail of Tears

Author: John Ehle

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2011-06-08

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0307793834

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A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century, some of their leaders believed it was necessary to adapt to European ways in order to survive. Those chiefs sealed the fate of their tribes in 1875 when they signed a treaty relinquishing their land east of the Mississippi in return for promises of wealth and better land. The U.S. government used the treaty to justify the eviction of the Cherokee nation in an exodus that the Cherokee will forever remember as the “trail where they cried.” The heroism and nobility of the Cherokee shine through this intricate story of American politics, ambition, and greed. B & W photographs


Cherokee Tragedy

Cherokee Tragedy

Author: Thurman Wilkins

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 1989-07-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 9780806121888

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Chronicles the rise of the Cherokee Nation and its rapid decline, focusing on the Ridge-Watie family and their experiences during the Cherokee removal.


Cherokee Sister

Cherokee Sister

Author: Catharine Brown

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1496209028

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Catharine Brown (1800?-1823) became Brainerd Mission School's first Cherokee convert to Christianity, a missionary teacher, and the first Native American woman whose own writings saw extensive publication in her lifetime. After her death from tuberculosis at age twenty-three, the missionary organization that had educated and later employed Brown commissioned a posthumous biography, Memoir of Catharine Brown, which enjoyed widespread contemporary popularity and praise. In the following decade, her writings, along with those of other educated Cherokees, became highly politicized and were used in debates about the removal of the Cherokees and other tribes to Indian Territory. Although she was once viewed by literary critics as a docile and dominated victim of missionaries who represented the tragic fate of Indians who abandoned their identities, Brown is now being reconsidered as a figure of enduring Cherokee revitalization, survival, adaptability, and leadership. In Cherokee Sister Theresa Strouth Gaul collects all of Brown's writings, consisting of letters and a diary, some appearing in print for the first time, as well as Brown's biography and a drama and poems about her. This edition of Brown's collected works and related materials firmly establishes her place in early nineteenth-century culture and her influence on American perceptions of Native Americans.


"Mixed Blood" Indians

Author: Theda Perdue

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 082032731X

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""Mixed Blood" Indians looks at a fascinating array of such birth- and kin-related issues as they were alternately misunderstood and astutely exploited by both Native and European cultures. Theda Perdue discusses the assimilation of non-Indians into Native societies, their descendants' participation in tribal life, and the white cultural assumptions conveyed in the designation "mixed blood." In addition to unions between European men and Native women, Perdue also considers the special cases arising from the presence of white women and African men and women in Indian society.".


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.