Cherokee Mixed-bloods: Cordery, Ghigau, Ridge-Watie, Ross, Sanders and Ward
Author : David Keith Hampton
Publisher : ARC Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
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Author : David Keith Hampton
Publisher : ARC Press
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 32,83 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Reference
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Author : Clint Crowe
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1940669685
The sad plight of the Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole—during America’s Civil War is both fascinating and often overlooked in the literature. From 1861-1865, the Indians fought their own bloody civil war on lands surrounded by the Kansas Territory, Arkansas, and Texas. Clint Crowe’s magisterial Caught in the Maelstrom: The Indian Nations in the Civil War reveals the complexity and the importance of this war within a war, and explains how it affected the surrounding states in the Trans-Mississippi West and the course of the broader war engulfing the country. The onset of the Civil War exacerbated the divergent politics of the five tribes and resulted in the Choctaw and Chickasaw contributing men for the Confederacy and the Seminoles contributing men for the Union. The Creeks were divided between the Union and the Confederacy, while the internal war split apart the Cherokee nation mostly between those who followed Stand Watie, a brigadier general in the Confederate Army, and John Ross, who threw his majority support behind the Union cause. Throughout, Union and Confederate authorities played on divisions within the tribes to further their own strategic goals by enlisting men, signing treaties, encouraging bloodshed, and even using the hard hand of war to turn a profit. Crowe’s well-written study is grounded upon a plethora of archival resources, newspapers, diaries, letter collections, and other accounts. Caught in the Maelstrom examines every facet of this complex and fascinating story in a manner sure to please the most demanding reader.
Author : Rowena McClinton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 17,44 MB
Release : 2022-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496232992
This collection of John Howard Payne's Papers is a significant recovery of firsthand political and social histories of Indigenous cultures, particularly the Cherokees, a southeastern tribe, whose ancestral lands included parts of the present-day states of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The papers enable readers to understand how the Cherokees and many other American Indians endured and persevered as they encountered forced removal in the 1830s due to the Indian Removal Act. The papers are also a source of cultural revitalization, elucidating the work of Sequoyah, a Cherokee genius, who in 1821 introduced his syllabary, a phonemic system with eighty-five symbols. John Howard Payne (1791-1852), an American actor, poet, and playwright, was so taken by the Cherokees' story that he lobbied Congress to forgo their removal and wrote articles in contemporary newspapers supporting Cherokees. In 1835 Payne journeyed to the Cherokee Nation and met with John Ross, Cherokee chief from 1828 to 1866, who found in Payne a colleague to assist him and other Cherokees with their cause against removal and in preserving their ancient social, spiritual, and political heritages. Payne gathered and recorded correspondence between Cherokees such as Ross, who was fluent in English, and U.S. officials. These papers include multiple correspondences, ratified and unratified treaties, contemporary newspaper articles, and resolutions sent to Congress appealing for justice for the Cherokees. Payne also assembled letters and writings by New England Congregationalist missionaries who resided in mission stations throughout the Cherokee Nation. Available in print for the first time, this remarkable repository of information provides a fuller understanding of the political climates Cherokees encountered throughout the early to mid-nineteenth century.
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Page : 426 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 1969
Category : North Carolina
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 18,13 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Cherokee Indians
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Author : Emmet Starr
Publisher :
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 42,98 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Cherokee Indians
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Includes treaties, genealogy of the tribe, and brief biographical sketches of individuals.
Author : David Keith Hampton
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 28,86 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Reference
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Author : Joyce B. Phillips
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 44,87 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803237186
The journal of the Brainerd Mission is an indispensable source for understanding Cherokee culture and history during the early nineteenth century. The interdenominational mission was located in the heart of Cherokee country near present-day Chattanooga. For seven years the Brainerd missionaries kept a journal describing their lives and those of their charges. Although the journal has long been recognized as a significant primary document, it was not fully transcribed or made widely available until now. The journal entries provide a richly textured and sensitive look at Cherokee life and American missionary activities during the early nineteenth century. They shed new light on the daily lives and personalities of individual Cherokees, as well as on poorly understood aspects of Cherokee politics and religion. The journal provides interesting ethnographic details concerning Cherokee council meetings, ceremonial occasions, gender relations, and the internal social and political tensions among families. Of equal interest are the complex and often conflicted attitudes of the missionaries, who were interested in Cherokee traditional culture but simultaneously worked to change it.
Author : Cherokee Nation
Publisher :
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 27,9 MB
Release : 1861
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN : 9781432823191
Author : Zella Armstrong
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780932807915
This first volume in the set details the history of Hamilton County and Chattanooga through 1861, the beginning of the Civil War. The work begins with Hernando de Soto's contact with the area and then explores the Indian natives’ early beginnings and lifestyles as they are known through the archaeological study of the mounds they built in the area. Extensive discussion is given to the Cherokee and Chickamauga Indians, the rise of conflict between their people and the white settlers and government, and their eventual removal west. Included are many biographical sketches of Indians who were influential in the area, with an entire chapter devoted to Chief John Ross.