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: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0300169604
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.
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Author: Theda Perdue
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-07-05
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 1101202343
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToday, 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
Author: Barbara R. Duncan
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780807847190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraditional 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
Author: Robert J. Conley
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0826332358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Conley's history of the Cherokees is the first to be endorsed by the Cherokee Nation and to be written by a Cherokee.
Old World Roots of the Cherokee
Author: Donald N. Yates
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0786491256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost 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.
Cherokees of the Old South
Author: Henry Thompson Malone
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2010-04-01
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 0820335428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst 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
Author: Theda Perdue
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780803235861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheda 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.
Cherokee Removal
Author: William L. Anderson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 1992-06-01
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 082031482X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes bibliographical references. Includes index.
Unto These Hills
Author: Kermit Hunter
Publisher:
Published: 2011-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780807868751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnto These Hills: A Drama of the Cherokee
