[PDF] Early History Of The Cherokees eBook

Author : Donald N. Yates
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 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.

Author : Henry Thompson Malone
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 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.

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 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.

Author : Thomas E. Mails
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 21,47 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN : 0933031459

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This book depicts the Cherokees' ancient culture and lifestyle, their government, dress, and family life. Mails chronicles the fundamentals of vital Cherokee spiritual beliefs and practices, their powerful rituals, and their joyful festivals, as well as the story of the gradual encroachment that all but destroyed their civilization.

Author : Theda Perdue
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 22,44 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780670031504

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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 effect on the Cherokee Nation, U.S.-Indian relations, and contemporary society.

Author : Gregory D. Smithers
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 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.

Author : William L. Anderson
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1992-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 082031482X

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Includes bibliographical references. Includes index.

Author : William G. McLoughlin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,13 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0820331384

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In The Cherokees and Christianity, William G. McLoughlin examines how the process of religious acculturation worked within the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century. More concerned with Cherokee "Christianization" than Cherokee "civilization," these eleven essays cover the various stages of cultural confrontation with Christian imperialism. The first section of the book explores the reactions of the Cherokee to the inevitable clash between Christian missionaries and their own religious leaders, as well as their many and varied responses to slavery. In part two, McLoughlin explores the crucial problem of racism that divided the southern part of North America into red, white and black long before 1776 and considers the ways in which the Cherokees either adapted Christianity to their own needs or rejected it as inimical to their identity.

Author : Emmet Starr
Publisher :
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 43,97 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN :

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Includes treaties, genealogy of the tribe, and brief biographical sketches of individuals.