427 pages, including index, free shipping media mail. A Journal of Anthropology, History, and Literature Moieties in Ancient Mesoamerica: Inference on Teotihuacan Social Structure, The Indian Matter of Helen Hunt Jackson's Ramona, The Cherokee Struggle for Lovely's Purchase View More...
109 pages, free shipping media mail. Many materials are available describing the procedures for researching American Indian ancestry by using official sources, such as Indian rolls, Courts of claims, Indian Agency rolls, U.S. War Dept. records, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs records. View More...
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 loat... View More...
Last volume of the Cherokee Census of those living on the Qualla Reservation in Cherokee, North Carolina. Those enumerated are descendants of Cherokees who were not removed to Indian Territory on the Trail of Tears. Census information includes individual's name, family relationship, birth date, gender. Sometime death date and children names also included. 4,000 names, indexed.180 pages View More...
424 pages, including index.. "Although the history of the Cherokee Nation has been told before, Ehle's version may be the best. He has found sources previously unused, affording human touches that enliven the narrative. Yet it is not so much the content as the telling that counts here. Ehle can be stark at times and lyrical at times, a style that suits his subject almost to perfection." View More...
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 th... View More...
The Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory contained nine political divisions or districts: Canadian, Cooweescoowee, Delaware, Flint, Going Snake, Illinois, Saline, Sequoyah, and Tahlequah.
This publication includes the 1880 and 1890 Cherokee National Census for the Canadian District. 90 pages.
Names include: Agnew, Clines, Haryfard, Kyle, Starr, Vann View More...
This book should be included on the shelf of anyone trying to establish their Cherokee ancestry. It contains a wealth of information listing book titles, documents, and other sources that one can use to follow to establish ancestral claims. It also contains a list of mirofilm available from the National Archives by film number.
Was Sir Alexander Cuming a charlatan, an opportunist, a madman, or a hero? Having inherited a baronetcy but little money, Cuming came to the New World to make his fortune. In a dream it had been revealed to his wife that he was to undertake a bizarre mission.
He set out for hostile Native American territory in the rugged Appalachian mountains, a journey that seemed destined to attract incident--starting with the packhorse drivers getting drunk. Eventually and singlehandedly Cuming coaxed the fragmented Cherokee tribe into declaring loyalty to the Crown of England. In the process, he so charme... View More...
Was Sir Alexander Cuming a charlatan, an opportunist, a madman, or a hero? Having inherited a baronetcy but little money, Cuming came to the New World to make his fortune. In a dream it had been revealed to his wife that he was to undertake a bizarre mission. He set out for hostile Native American territory in the rugged Appalachian mountains, a journey that seemed destined to attract incident--starting with the packhorse drivers getting drunk. Eventually and singlehandedly Cuming coaxed the fragmented Cherokee tribe into declaring loyalty to the Crown of England. In the process, he so charmed... View More...
In this spiritual, moving autobiography, Wilma Mankiller, former Chief of the Cherokee Nation and a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, tells of her own history while also honoring and recounting the history of the Cherokees. Mankiller's life unfolds against the backdrop of the dawning of the American Indian civil rights struggle, and her book becomes a quest to reclaim and preserve the great Native American values that form the foundation of our nation. This new edition completely updates Mankiller's life after 1994; since then she has stepped down as Chief of the Cherokee Nation,... View More...
