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.
Documents the 1830s policy shift of the U.S. government through which it discontinued efforts to assimilate Native Americans in favor of forcibly relocating them west of the Mississippi, in an account that traces the decision's specific ...
This important book explores the truth behind the legends, offering new insights into the turbulent history of these Native Americans. The book's readable style will appeal to all those interested in American Indians.
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.
Anderson , William L. , and James A. Lewis 1983 A guide to Cherokee documents in foreign archives . Metuchen , N.J .: Scarecrow Press . Axtell , James , ed . 1981 The Indian peoples of eastern America : A documentary history of the ...
In rare instances, those who were not abolitionists aided in the preservation of antebellum slave narratives, as in the case of Solomon Northup and Nat Turner: Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave (Auburn, N.Y., 1853), and Nat Turner, ...
Edited by W. David Baird. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1988. Hitchcock, Ethan Allen. A Traveler in Indian Territory: The journal of Ethan Allen Hitchcock. Edited by Grant Foreman. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1930.
sentatives of the Cherokee Nation, West, April 1, 1840, 26th Cong., 1st sess., H. Doc. ... McLoughlin, After the Trail of Tears, 154–55; William G. McLoughlin, Champions of the Cherokees: Evan and John B. Jones (Princeton NJ: Princeton ...
For more information on Evan and John Jones, see McLoughlin, Champions of the Cherokees. Evan Jones, like Samuel A. Worcester, also worked on disseminating religious information in English and Cherokee to residents in the Cherokee ...
An introduction to the locale, history, way of life, and culture of the Cherokee Indians.