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Cherokee America

Author : Margaret Verble
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328494225
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Cherokee America written by Margaret Verble and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Maud's Line, an epic novel that follows a web of complex family alliances and culture clashes in the Cherokee Nation during the aftermath of the Civil War, and the unforgettable woman at its center. It's the early spring of 1875 in the Cherokee Nation West. A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, a gold stash, and a preacher have all gone missing. Cherokee America Singer, known as "Check," a wealthy farmer, mother of five boys, and soon-to-be widow, is not amused. In this epic of the American frontier, several plots intertwine around the heroic and resolute Check: her son is caught in a compromising position that results in murder; a neighbor disappears; another man is killed. The tension mounts and the violence escalates as Check's mixed race family, friends, and neighbors come together to protect their community--and painfully expel one of their own. Cherokee America vividly, and often with humor, explores the bonds--of blood and place, of buried histories and half-told tales, of past grief and present injury--that connect a colorful, eclectic cast of characters, anchored by the clever, determined, and unforgettable Check.

Literature of the Cherokees

Author : George Everett Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature of the Cherokees written by George Everett Foster and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents: "Folk lore. Nomenclature. Spanish influences. The Law. Parchment. The book. Prayers. Symbols. Moravian influences. Oratory. Numerals. Visions. Songs. Annals of Victory. Boon's record. The challenge. First Cherokee hymn. Influences of the A.B.C.F.M. Pickering alphabet. Scotch element. White element. Baptist influences. Native adaptability. Sequoyahn era. Government growth. Birth of journalism. Vinita journalism. Union Press. Baptist Mission press. Park Hill press. Dwight Mission press. Territory press."

Living Stories of the Cherokee

Author : Barbara R. Duncan
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807847190
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Living Stories of the Cherokee written by Barbara R. Duncan and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional and modern stories by the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina reflect the tribe's religious beliefs and values, observations of animals and nature, and knowledge of history.

Trail of Tears

Author : John Ehle
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307793834
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Trail of Tears written by John Ehle and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sixth-generation North Carolinian, highly-acclaimed author John Ehle grew up on former Cherokee hunting grounds. His experience as an accomplished novelist, combined with his extensive, meticulous research, culminates in this moving tragedy rich with historical detail. The Cherokee are a proud, ancient civilization. For hundreds of years they believed themselves to be the "Principle People" residing at the center of the earth. But by the 18th century, some of their leaders believed it was necessary to adapt to European ways in order to survive. Those chiefs sealed the fate of their tribes in 1875 when they signed a treaty relinquishing their land east of the Mississippi in return for promises of wealth and better land. The U.S. government used the treaty to justify the eviction of the Cherokee nation in an exodus that the Cherokee will forever remember as the “trail where they cried.” The heroism and nobility of the Cherokee shine through this intricate story of American politics, ambition, and greed. B & W photographs

Mary and the Trail of Tears

Author : Andrea L. Rogers
Publisher : Stone Arch Books
ISBN 13 : 1496587146
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Mary and the Trail of Tears written by Andrea L. Rogers and published by Stone Arch Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister, and her mother, are going to survive the 1000 mile trip to the lands west of the Mississippi.

The Story of the Cherokees ...

Author : William Robert Lee Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Cherokees ... written by William Robert Lee Smith and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literature of the Cherokees; Also, Bibliography and the Story of Their Genesis

Author : George Everett Foster
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230412573
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Literature of the Cherokees; Also, Bibliography and the Story of Their Genesis written by George Everett Foster and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ... $400 per annum for his services, and like the editor, is subject to removal by the Principal Chief for improper conduct, or failure to perform prescribed duties. Though the Advocate is an eight wide column folio, it is furnished by the order of the nation at one dollar per annum, payable in money, national warrants or certificates, but is sent free to subscribers who read only Cherokee. The present Cherokee Advocate is destined to be a permanent institution among them, or should, at least, until the great majority of them have an English education, though the reasons why the nation should have an organ will be as strong then as now, should the Cherokees continue to hold their country in common. The paper is ably conducted by Cornelius Boudinot, who is a grandson of Elias Boudinot, the first Cherokee editor, and has J. L. Springston as translator. 28. VINITA JOURNALISM. Several attempts have been made at Vinita toward journalism. The earliest paper was the "Vidett," which was followed by the "Herald." The "Indian Chieftain was started by Ivy & Rogers, Sep. 22, 1882. On Feb. 9, 1883, the paper went into the hands of R. L. Owen and Wm. Hollensworth. May nth of the same year, it changed hands again, the firm being Owen & Sweasy. Sept. 14. 1883, Wm. P. Ross and Rev. J. W. Scroggs were announced as publishers; July 1st, 1884, S. J. Thompson and M. E. Milford took the paper; Jan. 1st, 1886, John L. Adair became editor, and with Mr. Milford is making an excellent paper. 29. UNION PRESS. As time passed on, it appeared best to abandon the Ossage mission buildings at Union, and it was decided to fit up a portion of them for a printing establishment, where they might print tracts and books, in Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek and Ossage...

The Cherokee Nation

Author : Robert J. Conley
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826332366
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Cherokee Nation written by Robert J. Conley and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005-09-06 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the tribe and the first to be written by a Cherokee. Robert Conley begins his survey with Cherokee origin myths and legends. He then explores their relations with neighboring Indian groups and European missionaries and settlers. He traces their forced migrations west, relates their participations on both sides of the Civil War and the wars of the twentieth century, and concludes with an examination of Cherokee life today. Conley provides analyses for general readers of all ages to learn the significance of tribal lore and Cherokee tribal law. Following the history is a listing of the Principal Chiefs of the Cherokees with a brief biography of each and separate listings of the chiefs of the Eastern Cherokees and the Western Cherokees. For those who want to know more about Cherokee heritage and history, Conley offers additional reading lists at the end of each chapter.

The Cherokee Rose

Author : Tiya Miles
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593596439
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book The Cherokee Rose written by Tiya Miles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-06-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three women uncover the secrets of a Georgia plantation that embodies the intertwined histories of Indigenous and enslaved Black communities—the fascinating debut novel, inspired by a true story, of the National Book Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of All That She Carried, now featuring a new introduction and discussion guide. “The Cherokee Rose is a mic drop—an instant classic. An invitation to listen to the urgent, sweet choruses of past and present.”—Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST Conducting research for her weekly history column, Jinx, a free-spirited Muscogee (Creek) historian, travels to Hold House, a Georgia plantation originally owned by Cherokee chief James Hold, to uncover the mystery of what happened to a tribal member who stayed behind after Indian removal, when Native Americans were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homelands in the nineteenth century. At Hold House, she meets Ruth, a magazine writer visiting on assignment, and Cheyenne, a Southern Black debutante seeking to purchase the estate. Hovering above them all is the spirit of Mary Ann Battis, the young Indigenous woman who remained in Georgia more than a century earlier. When they discover a diary left on the property that reveals even more about the house’s dark history, the three women’s connections to the place grow deeper. Over a long holiday weekend, Cheyenne is forced to reconsider the property’s rightful ownership, Jinx reexamines assumptions about her tribe’s racial history, and Ruth confronts her own family’s past traumas before surprising herself by falling into a new romance. Imbued with a nuanced understanding of history, The Cherokee Rose brings the past to life as Jinx, Ruth, and Cheyenne unravel mysteries with powerful consequences for them all.

Signs of Cherokee Culture

Author : Margaret Bender
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860050
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Signs of Cherokee Culture written by Margaret Bender and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in Eastern Cherokee life. The Cherokee syllabary was invented in the 1820s by the respected Cherokee Sequoyah. The syllabary quickly replaced alternative writing systems for Cherokee and was reportedly in widespread use by the mid-nineteenth century. After that, literacy in Cherokee declined, except in specialized religious contexts. But as Bender shows, recent interest in cultural revitalization among the Cherokees has increased the use of the syllabary in education, publications, and even signage. Bender also explores the role played by the syllabary within the ever more important context of tourism. (The Eastern Cherokee Band hosts millions of visitors each year in the Great Smoky Mountains.) English is the predominant language used in the Cherokee community, but Bender shows how the syllabary is used in special and subtle ways that help to shape a shared cultural and linguistic identity among the Cherokees. Signs of Cherokee Culture thus makes an important contribution to the ethnographic literature on culturally specific literacies.

The Cherokee Syllabary

Author : Ellen Cushman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806185481
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book The Cherokee Syllabary written by Ellen Cushman and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-09-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1821, Sequoyah, a Cherokee metalworker and inventor, introduced a writing system that he had been developing for more than a decade. His creation—the Cherokee syllabary—helped his people learn to read and write within five years and became a principal part of their identity. This groundbreaking study traces the creation, dissemination, and evolution of Sequoyah’s syllabary from script to print to digital forms. Breaking with conventional understanding, author Ellen Cushman shows that the syllabary was not based on alphabetic writing, as is often thought, but rather on Cherokee syllables and, more importantly, on Cherokee meanings. Employing an engaging narrative approach, Cushman relates how Sequoyah created the syllabary apart from Western alphabetic models. But he called it an alphabet because he anticipated the Western assumption that only alphabetic writing is legitimate. Calling the syllabary an alphabet, though, has led to our current misunderstanding of just what it is and of the genius behind it—until now. In her opening chapters, Cushman traces the history of Sequoyah’s invention and explains the logic of the syllabary’s structure and the graphic relationships among the characters, both of which might have made the system easy for native speakers to use. Later chapters address the syllabary’s enduring significance, showing how it allowed Cherokees to protect, enact, and codify their knowledge and to weave non-Cherokee concepts into their language and life. The result was their enhanced ability to adapt to social change on and in Cherokee terms. Cushman adeptly explains complex linguistic concepts in an accessible style, even as she displays impressive understanding of interrelated issues in Native American studies, colonial studies, cultural anthropology, linguistics, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Profound, like the invention it explores, The Cherokee Syllabary will reshape the study of Cherokee history and culture. Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Cherokees

Author : Grace Steele Woodward
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806118154
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book The Cherokees written by Grace Steele Woodward and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a higher peak of civilization than any other North American Indian tribe. They invented a syllabary and developed an intricate government, including a system of courts of law. They published their own newspaper in both Cherokee and English and became noted as orators and statesmen. At the beginning the Cherokees’ conquest of civilization was agonizingly slow and uncertain. Warlords of the southern Appalachian Highlands, they were loath to expend their energies elsewhere. In the words of a British officer, "They are like the Devil’s pigg, they will neither lead nor drive." But, led or driven, the warlike and willful Cherokees, lingering in the Stone Age by choice at the turn of the eighteenth century, were forced by circumstances to transfer their concentration on war to problems posed by the white man. To cope with these unwelcome problems, they had to turn from the conquests of war to the conquest of civilization.

Champions of the Cherokees

Author : William G. McLoughlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400860318
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Champions of the Cherokees written by William G. McLoughlin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Champions of the Cherokees is the story of two extraordinary Northern Baptist missionaries, father and son, who lived with the Cherokee Indians from 1821 to 1876. Told largely in the words of these outspoken and compassionate men, this is also a narrative of the Cherokees' sufferings at the hands of the United States government and white frontier dwellers. In addition, it is an analysis of the complexity of interracial relations in the United States, for the Cherokees adopted the white man's custom of black chattel slavery. This fascinating biography reveals the unusual extent to which Evan and John B. Jones challenged prevailing federal Indian policies: unlike most other missionaries, they supported the Indians' right to retain their own identity and national autonomy. William McLoughlin vividly describes the "trail of tears" over which the Cherokees and Evan Jones traveled eight hundred miles through the dead of winter--from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina to a new home in Oklahoma. He examines the difficulties that Jones encountered when, alone among all the missionaries, he expelled Cherokee slaveholders from his mission churches. This book depicts the Joneses' experiences during the Civil War, including their chaplaincy of two Cherokee regiments who fought with the Northern side. Finally, McLoughlin tells how these "champions of the Cherokees" were adopted into the Cherokee nation and helped them fight detribalization. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Cherokee Perspective

Author : Laurence French
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781469638492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book The Cherokee Perspective written by Laurence French and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La 4ème de couverture indique : "The Cherokee Perspective will provide a rare glimpse inside Cherokee culture and society and a more complete view of how Cherokees see themselves, their past, their future, and their relationship with the non-Indian world. The Cherokee Perspective contains material about contemporary social problems, education, history, current events, dances, cooking, arts and crafts, legends, and outstanding individuals. The Cherokee Perspective presents the diversity which exists in Cherokee society today and the understanding and tolerance on which Cherokee society traditionally was based."

A Life on Fire

Author : Connie Cronley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806177756
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book A Life on Fire written by Connie Cronley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?” Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known. In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story of Catherine Ann “Kate” Barnard (1875–1930), a fiery political reformer and the first woman elected to state office in Oklahoma, as commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907—almost fifteen years before women won the right to vote in the United States. Born to hardscrabble settlers on the Nebraska prairie, Barnard committed her energy, courage, and charismatic oratory to the cause of Progressive reform and became a political powerhouse and national celebrity. As a champion of the poor, workers, children, the imprisoned, and the mentally ill, Barnard advocated for compulsory education, prison reform, improved mental health treatment, and laws against child labor. Before statehood, she stumped across the Twin Territories to unite farmers and miners into a powerful political alliance. She also helped write Oklahoma’s Progressive constitution, creating what some heralded as “a new kind of state.” But then she took on the so-called “Indian Question.” Defending Native orphans against a conspiracy of graft that reached from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C., she uncovered corrupt authorities and legal guardians stealing oil, gas, and timber rights from Native Americans’ federal allotments. In retaliation, legislators and grafters closed ranks and defunded her state office. Broken in health and heart, she left public office and died a recluse. She remains, however, a riveting figure in Oklahoma history, a fearless activist on behalf of the weak and helpless.

Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club

Author : Christopher B. Teuton
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835846
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club written by Christopher B. Teuton and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of traditional Cherokee tales, teachings, and folklore, with four works presented in both English and Cherokee.

The Cherokees and Their Chiefs

Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781557285270
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Cherokees and Their Chiefs written by Stan Hoig and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single volume history of the Cherokee that places special emphasis on the tribe's leaders and politics. Their dealings with the English, the experience of the Trail of Tears and the sufferings during Civil War.