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Pioneer-Cherokee Heritage Series
Author: Our Family Heritage
Author: Dave AndersonThe Cottonpatch Chronicles
Author: Don L. ShadburnPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Blood Kin
Author: Don L. ShadburnPublisher: Don Shadburn
ISBN: 9780967495200
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 683
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Cherokee Planters in Georgia, 1832-1838
Author: Don L. ShadburnPublisher: W H Wolfe Associates
ISBN: 9780961347444
Category : Cherokee Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Fire and the Spirits
Author: Rennard StricklandPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806116198
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Volume 133 in The Civilization of the Americas Series This book traces the emergency of the Cherokee system of laws from the ancient spirit decrees to the fusion of tribal law ways with Anglo-American law. The Cherokees enacted their first written law in 1808 in Georgia. In succeeding years the leaders and tribal councils of the southeastern and Oklahoma groups wrote a constitution, established courts, and enacted laws that were in accord with the old tribal values but reflected and accommodated to the whites' legal system. Thanks to the great gift of Sequoyah-his syllabary-the Cherokees were well versed in their laws, able to read and interpret them from a very early time. The system served the people well. It endured until 1898, when the federal government abolished the tribal government. The author provides a brief review of Cherokee history and explains the circumstances surrounding the stages of development of the legal system. Excerpts from editorials in the Cherokee Phoenix and the Cherokee Advocate, letters, and tribal documents give added insight into the problems the Cherokees faced and their efforts to resolve them. Of particular interest is a series of charts explaining the complex Cherokee spirit system of crimes (or "deviations") and the punishments meted out for them. A legal historian of Osage and Cherokee heritage, Rennard Strickland is considered a pioneer in introducing Indian law into university curriculum. He has written and edited more than 35 books and is frequently cited by courts and scholars for his work as revision editor in chief of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law. Strickland has been involved in the resolution of a number of significant Indian cases. He was the founding director of the Center for the Study of American Indian Law and Policy at the University of Oklahoma. He is the first person to have served both as president of the Association of American Law Schools and as chair of the Law School Admissions Council. He is also the only person to have received both the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) Award and the American Bar Association's Spirit of Excellence Award. Strickland was the dean of the law school from 1997 to 2002.
The Cherokee Diaspora
Author: Gregory D. SmithersPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300169604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement, Gregory Smithers uncovers the origins of the Cherokee diaspora and explores how communities and individuals have negotiated their Cherokee identities, even when geographically removed from the Cherokee Nation headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Beginning in the eighteenth century, the author transports the reader back in time to tell the poignant story of the Cherokee people migrating throughout North America, including their forced exile along the infamous Trail of Tears (1838-39). Smithers tells a remarkable story of courage, cultural innovation, and resilience, exploring the importance of migration and removal, land and tradition, culture and language in defining what it has meant to be Cherokee for a widely scattered people.
Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829-1833
Author: Jack Dwain GregoryPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806128092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
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This is a lively effort to pierce the thick fog of Falsehood, calumny, ignorance, and legend surrounding the four years Sam Houston spent among the Cherokees in what is now northeastern Oklahoma, the broken years in Tennessee, and his advent in Texas on the eve of the War for Independence.–Virginia Quarterly Review
Unhallowed Intrusion
Author: Don L. ShadburnPublisher: Wh Wolfe Associates
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Mentions: John Gambold and wife Anne at Springplace, Ga.
Mankiller
Author: Wilma MankillerPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250244080
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
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. Now featuring a new Afterword to the 2000 paperback reissue, this edition of Mankiller completely updates the author's private and public life after 1994 and explores the recent political struggles of the Cherokee Nation.