Research Catalog

Title

The Cherokee Indian nation : a troubled history / edited by Duane H. King.

Publication

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, c1979.

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Additional Authors

King, Duane H.

Description

xix, 256 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This important book explores the truth behind the legends, offering new insights into the turbulent history of these Native Americans.

Subject

Cherokee Indians > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Duane H. King -- The origins and development of Cherokee culture / Roy S. Dickens, Jr. -- A perilous rule : the law of international homicide / John Phillip Reid -- Distribution of eighteenth-century Cherokee settlements / Betty Anderson Smith -- The Cherokee frontiers, the French Revolution, and William Augustus Bowles / William C. Sturtevant -- Early nineteenth-century Cherokee political organization / V. Richard Persico, Jr. -- Cherokee planters : the development of plantation slavery before Removal / Theda Perdue -- Chaos in the Indian country : the Cherokee Nation, 1828-35 / Kenneth Penn Davis -- Postremoval factionalism in the Cherokee Nation / Gerard Reed -- The origin of the Eastern Cherokees as a social and political entity / Duane H. King -- William Holland Thomas and the Cherokee claims / Richard W. Iobst -- Observations on social change among the Eastern Cherokees / John Witthoft -- New militants or resurrected state? : the Five County Northeastern Oklahoma Cherokee Organization / Albert L. Wahrhaftig and Jane Lukens-Wahrhaftig.

ISBN

0870492276

LCCN

^^^78013222^

OCLC

4194151

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library