When Allie MacAllister’s best friend, Leaf Sweetwater, invites her to try on her buckskin dress, Allie couldn’t be happier. Until soldiers interrupt the girls’ fun and round up Leaf’s family, forcing them from their home and taking Allie with them. Together they are swept along the harsh Trail of Tears, and joined by thousands of other Cherokee families.
Set during the Anglo-Cherokee War (1758–1761), The Last Sister traces a young woman's journey through grief, vengeance, guilt, and love in the unpredictable world of the early American frontier.
106. Fred Gearing, Priests and Warriors: Social Structures for Cherokee Politics in the18th Century, Memoir 93, American Anthropological Association, vol. 64, no. 5, pt. 2 (1962), 31; and Alan Kilpatrick, The Night Has a Naked Soul: ...
Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change.
Dark Sister: Poems gives voice to the living presence of Cherokee teachings and history, passed down through Linda Rodriguez's family.
... Cherokee (CHAIR-o-KEY) Dancing Eagle Dancing Shadow Flying Hawk Grandfather J. D. Little Sister Marty and Johnnie ... Cherokee's mother and lead mare Cherokee's father and herd stallion Former patriarch of the herd, who is now with his ...
This book is a fitting testament to their contributions. Eastern Band Cherokee Women stands out by demonstrating the overwhelming importance of women to the preservation of the Eastern Band.
Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees: Farewell to Sister Gambold. The Anna Rosina years, Part 3
One of the earliest mentions of Cherokee baskets was published in 1714 by British government surveyor John Lawson, who wrote, “A great way up the Country, both Baskets and Mats are made of split Reed which are only the outward shining ...
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of ...
Religious Intelligencer 9, no. 37,554. Gabriel, Elias Boudinot, 50. Keller, The Second Great Awakening in Connecticut, 135. Demos, The Heathen School, 77. Andrew, Rebuilding the Christian Commonwealth, 322–23. Demos, The Heathen School, ...