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Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears
Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early …
Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895
The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world’s fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression. This uses the exposition to …
Slavery Evolution Cherokee Society
North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their …
Cherokee Editor
A collection of most of the writings published by the Cherokee leader Elias Boudinot. The work documents letters, articles, pamphlets and editorials in order to demonstrate the …
Making a Difference
2019 National Native American Hall of Fame Inductee This stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, …
Native Carolinians
The Cherokees
The Cherokees are one of the largest Indian tribes in the United States. They are often noted for establishing a republican form of government and an 84-character written alphabet …
Cherokee Women
“An interesting and effective overview. . . . It is to the author’s considerable credit that she is able to re-create the values and behavior of Cherokee women through court …
The American Indian and the End of the Confederacy, 1863-1866
Late in April 1861, President Lincoln ordered Federal troops to evacuate forts in Indian Territory. That left the Five Civilized Tribes—Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and …
Sifters
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American …