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"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."--Jacket.

Cherokee Indians --- Five Civilized Tribes --- Indians of North America --- Iroquoian Indians --- Government relations --- History --- Social life and customs --- Cherokee Nation --- History. --- Cherok Nation --- Cherokee Tribe of Indians --- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma --- Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians --- Nación Cherokee --- Ani'-Yun'wiya' Indians --- Anigaduwagi Indians --- Anitsalagi Indians --- AniYunWiYa Indians --- Aniyvwiya Indians --- Keetoowah Indians --- Kituwah Indians --- Tsalagi Indians --- Tslagi Indians

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantation in the southeastern Cherokee Nation. In this first full-length study to reconstruct the history of the plantation, Tiya Miles tells the story of Diamond Hill's founding, its flourishing, its takeover by white land-lottery winners on the eve of the Cherokee Removal, its decay, and ultimately its renovation in the 1950's. This moving multiracial history sheds light on the various cultural communities that interacted within the plantation bou

Cherokee Indians --- Plantations --- Plantation life --- Country life --- Farms --- Five Civilized Tribes --- Indians of North America --- Iroquoian Indians --- History. --- Vann, James, --- Chief Vann House (Spring Place, Ga.) --- Ani'-Yun'wiya' Indians --- Anigaduwagi Indians --- Anitsalagi Indians --- AniYunWiYa Indians --- Aniyvwiya Indians --- Keetoowah Indians --- Kituwah Indians --- Tsalagi Indians --- Tslagi Indians

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This book, the first major new collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and contemporary tales from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. It features stories told by Davey Arch, Robert Bushyhead, Edna Chekelelee, Kathi Smith Littlejohn, and Freeman Owle - five Cherokee storytellers who learned their art and their stories from family and community. The collection also includes a story presented in the Cherokee language and syllabary, translated by tribal interpreter Marie Junaluska. The tales gathered here include animal stories, creation myths, legends, and ghost stories as well as family tales and stories about events in Cherokee history. The stories in this collection not only reflect Cherokee beliefs and values, they also show that Cherokee culture is alive and strong in the hearts of the people.

Cherokee Indians --- Tales --- Storytellers --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Raconteurs --- Tellers of stories --- Entertainers --- Folk tales --- Folktales --- Folk literature --- Five Civilized Tribes --- Indians of North America --- Iroquoian Indians --- Folklore --- Ani'-Yun'wiya' Indians --- Anigaduwagi Indians --- Anitsalagi Indians --- AniYunWiYa Indians --- Aniyvwiya Indians --- Keetoowah Indians --- Kituwah Indians --- Tsalagi Indians --- Tslagi Indians

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Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man's fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached. At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn Whistler was executed in the summer of 1752 for the crime of murdering five Cherokee men. War had just broken out between the Creeks and the Cherokees to the north. To the east, colonists in South Carolina and Georgia watched the growing conflict with alarm, while British imperial officials kept an eye on both the Indians' war and the volatile politics of the colonists themselves. They all interpreted the single calamitous event of Acorn Whistler's death through their own uncertainty about the future. Joshua Piker uses their diverging accounts to uncover the larger truth of an early America rife with violence and insecurity but also transformative possibility.

Cherokee Indians --- Creek Indians --- Maskoki Indians --- Muscogee Indians --- Muskogee Indians --- Muskoki Indians --- Mvskoke Indians --- Mvskokvlke --- Five Civilized Tribes --- Indians of North America --- Muskogean Indians --- Iroquoian Indians --- Violence against --- Kings and rulers --- Acorn Whistler, --- Whistler, Acorn, --- Death. --- Great Britain --- Southern States --- Colonies --- Administration. --- History --- Ani'-Yun'wiya' Indians --- Anigaduwagi Indians --- Anitsalagi Indians --- AniYunWiYa Indians --- Aniyvwiya Indians --- Keetoowah Indians --- Kituwah Indians --- Tsalagi Indians --- Tslagi Indians

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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.

Cherokee Indians. --- Cherokee Indians --- Five Civilized Tribes --- Indians of North America --- Iroquoian Indians --- Land tenure. --- Land transfers --- Ani'-Yun'wiya' Indians --- Anigaduwagi Indians --- Anitsalagi Indians --- AniYunWiYa Indians --- Aniyvwiya Indians --- Keetoowah Indians --- Kituwah Indians --- Tsalagi Indians --- Tslagi Indians --- 1800 - 1899 --- 1800-talet