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Wishart, David M. "Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal." Journal of Economic History 55, no. 1 (March 1995): 120–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700040596.

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Debate over the level of economic development for the Eastern Cherokees was heated during the 1830s. Removal opponents argued that the Cherokees had adopted white agricultural methods, whereas advocates of removal maintained that little evidence of progress existed. Removal advocates believed that Cherokee economic progress required that they be removed from contact with whites. This article examines the statistical record to show that a majority of Cherokee households produced surplus food before removal. The large number of Cherokee households producing surpluses before removal suggests the existence of significant rents to be transmitted to white farmers via the removal policy.
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Altman, Heidi M., and Thomas N. Belt. "Reading History: Cherokee History through a Cherokee Lens." Native South 1, no. 1 (2008): 90–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/nso.0.0003.

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Thornton, Russell. "Nineteenth-Century Cherokee History." American Sociological Review 50, no. 1 (February 1985): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2095346.

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Owens, Robert M., and Robert J. Conley. "The Cherokee Nation: A History." Journal of Southern History 72, no. 4 (November 1, 2006): 912. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/27649239.

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Myers, Robert A., and Robert J. Conley. "The Cherokee Nation: A History." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 65, no. 2 (2006): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40038299.

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McLoughlin, William G., John R. Finger, and James W. Parins. "Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century." Ethnohistory 39, no. 4 (1992): 514. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/481967.

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Mize, Jamie Myers. "“To Conclude on a General Union” Masculinity, the Chickamauga, and Pan-Indian Alliances in the Revolutionary Era." Ethnohistory 68, no. 3 (July 1, 2021): 429–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-8940515.

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Abstract Utilizing gender as a lens for understanding the political decisions of Cherokee men in the Revolutionary era, this article examines the evolution of Cherokee manhood as Cherokee men renegotiated their masculinity in the wake of colonial pressures. A group known as the Chickamauga sought to maintain historic expressions of manhood and developed several strategies to do so. In particular, Chickamauga men worked tirelessly to establish pan-Indian alliances and to unite military efforts against American settlers. Amid these efforts, the warrior-diplomat emerged as a masculine ideal in Cherokee society.
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Shoemaker, N. "Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life." Ethnohistory 51, no. 3 (July 1, 2004): 669–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-3-669.

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Reed, J. L. "Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation: Town, Region, and Nation among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees." Ethnohistory 60, no. 1 (January 1, 2013): 160–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00141801-1642833.

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Walker, Willard, and James Sarbaugh. "The Early History of the Cherokee Syllabary." Ethnohistory 40, no. 1 (1993): 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/482159.

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Nichols, Lee Anne. "The infant caring process among Cherokee mothers." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/186688.

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The purpose of this study was to identify the process of providing care to infants among Oklahoma Cherokee mothers. American Indian infants are one of the most vulnerable populations in the United States, thus making them more vulnerable to the care they receive. American Indian mothers have cultural differences that influence the care they provide to their infants. Given the dearth of knowledge about this process and its significance to the health and well-being of American Indian children and perhaps other children, a qualitative grounded theory method was used to build scientific knowledge in this area. Northeastern Oklahoma Cherokee mothers who had an infant less than two years of age comprised the sample pool. Informants were selected according to the process of "theoretical sampling." Nineteen informants were interviewed over a three month time period. Data were also obtained through participant observation. These interviews and observations provided the data for analysis. The audio-taped interviews were transcribed, and then analyzed using the technique of "constant comparative analysis," consistent with grounded theory. A social process of Indian infant care among Cherokee mothers was identified. Eight concepts emerged from data analysis. The first and principal concept, Being a Cherokee Mother, described the functions of being an Indian mother in Cherokee society. The seven other concepts describe the patterns of cultural care the mothers provided to their infants. These concepts were: Accommodating Everyday Infant Care, Accommodating Health Perspectives, Building a Care-Providing Consortium, Living Spiritually, Merging the Infant into Indian Culture, Using Non-Coercive Discipline Techniques, and Vigilantly Watching for the Natural Unfolding of the Infant. Trustworthiness and credibility of the findings were established. Knowledge gained from this study may enable nursing professionals to become culturally competent in providing care that promotes the health practices of Cherokee mothers as they then provide care for their infants. Culturally sensitive nursing care provided to Cherokee families will be enhanced.
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Frost, Earnie Lee 1950. "Dereliction of duty: The selling of the Cherokee Nation." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291757.

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The published works of Cherokee history, written from the Anglo-American cultural perspective, do not discuss how the culture and social structure disintegrated between the time of European contact and the "Trail of Tears." By reinterpreting the events of that period from a Cherokee perspective, the author hopes to explain the mechanisms involved in the collapse of traditional Cherokee social structures. The roles of the War Organization, and of women within that institution, are elaborated upon. The great tribal leader, Dragging Canoe, is discussed at length. The corruption of American-defined tribal leaders within the weakened Cherokee Nation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is considered as one of the principal factors in the downfall of the Cherokee people.
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Brumley, Dana. "Outside the Circle: The Juxtaposition of Powwow Imagery and Cherokee Historical Representation." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/4140.

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This thesis looks at the juxtaposition presented by the Eastern Cherokee's struggle to present an accurate historical representation of 'Cherokee' against the backdrop of the more lucrative 'Tourist-ready Indian', influenced by powwow imagery. The thesis gives a brief history of the contemporary powwow, discusses the debates surrounding its intrinsic value to American Indians as historically representative, and then examines the shared elements of Cherokee and powwow history. There is an analysis of the influence of powwow imagery on notions of Cherokee history and its correlation to the expectations of visitors to the Cherokee Reservation. Thus, the author argues that the Eastern Cherokee struggle to accurately transmit their own historical identity outside of powwow imagery, and in doing so, must reconcile the dichotomous relationship of a viable tourist industry that operates on historical misconceptions.
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Department of History
Arts and Humanities
History MA
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Greenbaum, Marjory Grayson-Lowman. "Sacred People, a World of Change: The Enduring Spirit of the Cherokee and Creek Nation on the Frontier." unrestricted, 2005. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04132005-113253/.

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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2005.
Title from thesis t.p. Clifford Kuhn, committee chair; Charles G. Steffen, committee member. Electronic text (17 p.) : digital, PDF file. Electronic audio (58:41 and 30:53 min.) : digital, AAC Audio file. "The interviews were aired on Atlanta public radio in the form of short segments for Native American History Month and later for a series of vignettes I produced that highlighted advocates for human rights called Voices for Freedom"--P. 5. Description based on contents viewed Aug. 3, 2007.
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Gibson, Tracey Ann. "Civilizing the Savages: Cherokee Advances, White Settlement, and the Rhetoric of Removal." W&M ScholarWorks, 1995. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625939.

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Wallace, Jessica Lynn. ""Building Forts in Their Heart": Anglo-Cherokee Relations on the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Southern Frontier." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1404334391.

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Freed, Feather Crawford 1971. "Joel Poinsett and the Paradox of Imperial Republicanism: Chile, Mexico, and the Cherokee Nation, 1810-1841." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/7485.

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This thesis examines the intersection of republicanism and imperialism in the early nineteenth-century Americas. I focus primarily on Joel Roberts Poinsett, a United States ambassador and statesman, whose career provides a lens into the tensions inherent in a yeoman republic reliant on territorial expansion, yet predicated on the inclusive principles of liberty and virtue. During his diplomatic service in Chile in the 1810s and Mexico in the 1820s, I argue that Poinsett distinguished the character of the United States from that of European empires by actively fostering republican culture and institutions, while also pursuing an increasingly aggressive program of national self-interest. The imperial nature of Poinsett's ideology became pronounced as he pursued the annexation of Texas and the removal of the Cherokee Indians, requiring him to construct an exclusionary and racialized understanding of American republicanism.
Adviser: Carlos Aguirre
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Bryant, James Allen. "Between the River and the Flood: The Cherokee Nation and the Battle for European Supremacy in North America." W&M ScholarWorks, 1999. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626230.

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Morgan, Nancy. "“Fraught with Disastrous Consequences for our Country”: Cherokee Sovereignty, Nullification, and the Sectional Crisis." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/341519.

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““Fraught with Disastrous Consequences for our Country”: Cherokee Sovereignty, Nullification and the Sectional Crisis” explores how the national debates over Indian sovereignty rights contributed to the rise of American sectionalism. Although most American citizens supported westward expansion, the Cherokee Nation demonstrated effectively that it had adopted Western civilized standards and, in accord with federal treaty law, deserved constitutional protections for its sovereignty and homelands. The Cherokees’ success divided American public opinion over that nation’s purported rights to constitutional protections. When Georgian leaders and the state militia harassed Northern white American missionaries who supported Cherokee sovereignty rights, even citizenship rights seemed in question. South Carolina’s leaders capitalized on the Cherokee debate by framing their own protest against federal tariffs as a complementary states’ rights issue. Thus, in 1832, nine months after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Cherokee sovereignty protections against Georgia’s removal efforts in Worcester v. Georgia, South Carolina issued an Ordinance of Nullification, proclaiming its state right to nullify federal taxation. Current historiography tends to suggest that most Americans at that time ignored Cherokee sovereignty to confront South Carolina’s Nullification challenge. Alternatively, this project proposes that the debates over Cherokee sovereignty exacerbated Americans’ fear over South Carolina’s Nullification crisis, because together they representing a two-state challenge to federal authority. While current historiography also recognizes that expansion was a critical feature of American sectionalism, the debate over Indian sovereignty within already established Eastern states demonstrates that the politics of expansion was not simply a Western borderlands issue. Nullification threatened the Union because Georgia and President Andrew Jackson simultaneously ignored the U.S. Supreme Court’s authority to interpret constitutional law, while promoting the vital importance of constitutional law. To explore the sectional tensions that linked Cherokee sovereignty and Nullification, this project reviews the earlier period in American politics when these issues evolved separately to demonstrate the effect of their eventual connection. The first chapter provides an example that shows how the Cherokees protected their treaty rights successfully during this earlier period. Chapter Two considers the unique histories of South Carolina and the Cherokee Nation, and their collective challenges to the evolving American political economy. Chapter Three explores how the non-white republic of the Cherokee Nation contributed to the weakening of race-based slavery positivism, despite its own investment in slavery. Chapter Four demonstrates how a widening circle of congressional figures began connecting publicly the debates over Cherokee removal, tariffs, and slavery, made especially visible during the Webster-Hayne debates in the Senate. Chapter Five delineates the national discord over the extra-legal violence against white missionaries who protected Cherokee interests. As evident through the recently discovered prison journal of Rev. Samuel Austin Worcester—of Worcester v. Georgia—this chapter also demonstrates that despite their rhetoric otherwise, Jacksonians recognized the sectional toxicity when the American public connected Cherokee sovereignty and Nullification.
Temple University--Theses
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McMillion, Ovid Andrew. "Cherokee Indian Removal: The Treaty of New Echota and General Winfield Scott." [Johnson City, Tenn. : East Tennessee State University], 2003. http://etd-submit.etsu.edu/etd/theses/available/etd-0607103-161102/unrestricted/mcmillionA071503a.pdf.

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Thesis (M.A.)--East Tennessee State University, 2003.
Title from electronic submission form. ETSU ETD database URN: etd-0607103-161102. Includes bibliographical references. Also available via Internet at the UMI web site.
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Books on the topic "Cherokee history"

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Helen, Dwyer, ed. Cherokee history and culture. New York: Gareth Stevens Pub., 2012.

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Cherokee. New York: PowerKids Press, 2016.

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Crawford, Helen Wooddell. The saga of Cherokee: Cherokee County, Texas. 2nd ed. Jacksonville, Tex: Cherokee County Genealogical Society, 2006.

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Conley, Goldie Smith. Cherokee Creek country: A history. Austin, Tex: Nortex Press, 1988.

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The Cherokee Nation: A history. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

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Englar, Mary. The Cherokee and their history. Minneapolis, Minn: Compass Point Books, 2006.

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McCulla, Thomas. History of Cherokee County, Iowa. La Crosse, Wis: Brookhaven Press, 2002.

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The Cherokee. New York: Chelsea House, 2011.

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Walker, Charles Orville. Cherokee footprints--. Jasper, Ga. (573 Church Str., Jasper 30143): Copies available from C.O. Walker, 1988.

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The Cherokee. New York, NY: AV2 by Weigl, 2014.

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Rodning, Christopher B. "Architecture of the Cherokee." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 1–9. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-3934-5_10218-1.

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Rodning, Christopher B. "Architecture of the Cherokee." In Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures, 499–507. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7747-7_10218.

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Denson, Andrew. "The Tourists." In Monuments to Absence. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630830.003.0003.

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In the 1920s and 30s, tourism in southern Appalachia created a new public awareness of the region's Cherokee history. With the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP), the Cherokee community in Western North Carolina became a significant tourist destination, and this development encouraged promoters to work the Cherokees more thoroughly into their conceptions of the region's past. Tourist literature and performances began to highlight certain Cherokee historical episodes, among them the story of removal. This chapter traces the Cherokee community's growing involvement in the regional tourism economy during the interwar period, while examining mountain tourism's representations of Cherokee history. It describes the roles played by Cherokee history in promotions for the GSMNP, before closely analysing two particular commemorations: a campaign in Knoxville, Tennessee, to erect a monument to Cherokee removal and a pageant mounted by the Eastern Band of Cherokees to mark the one-hundredth anniversary of the tribe's removal treaty.
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Denson, Andrew. "The Remembered Community." In Monuments to Absence. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630830.003.0007.

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This chapter examines the roles played by public history and historical memory in the reconstruction of the Cherokee Nation in twentieth-century Oklahoma. The United States dismantled the Cherokee political system at the turn of the twentieth century, when it forced Cherokees to accept the allotment policy. By the middle twentieth century, however, Cherokees began to reestablish a tribal administration, creating new institutions to represent and provide services to Cherokee communities. The memory of the nineteenth-century Cherokee Nation contributed to these developments in several ways. Tribal leaders invoked their people's nineteenth-century achievements to promote political cooperation in the present. They also used the memory of the Indian republic to bolster their own legitimacy as tribal representatives, offering themselves as heirs to the leaders of the old Nation. They depicted their work as an effort to restore the Cherokees' nineteenth-century greatness, applying tribal history to the task of building a modern Cherokee Nation.
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Denson, Andrew. "Removal and the Cherokee Nation." In Monuments to Absence. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630830.003.0002.

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This chapter provides an overview of removal-era Cherokee history. It recounts the rise of the Indian removal policy and the state of Georgia's campaign to compel the Cherokee Nation to negotiate a removal treaty. It describes Cherokee resistance to removal and the experience of the "Trail of Tears." It also offers a brief narrative of Cherokee Nation history after removal, while explaining the emergence of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. The chapter ends by describing several ways in which Cherokees and non-Indians employed the memory of removal in writings from the late nineteenth century. These writings established themes later broadcast by twentieth century commemorations.
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Denson, Andrew. "Introduction." In Monuments to Absence. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630830.003.0001.

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This book began with tourism. In the summer of 1994, a friend and I drove from Bloomington, Indiana, where I attended graduate school, to Florida for a short vacation. As we sped along Interstate 75 through northern Georgia, I spotted a brown roadside sign announcing that, at the next exit, we would find New Echota, a state historic site interpreting the history of the Cherokee Nation. For a brief time in the early nineteenth century, New Echota was the Cherokee capital, the seat of the national government created by tribal leaders in the 1820s. The Cherokee National Council met at New Echota in the years prior to removal, and it was the site of the Cherokee Supreme Court. During a time when the United States and the state of Georgia pressured Cherokees to emigrate to the West, the new capital represented the Cherokees’ determination to remain in their homeland. It was also the place where, in late 1835, a small group of tribal leaders signed the treaty under which the United States forced the Cherokee Nation to remove. I had recently become interested in the history of Cherokee sovereignty and nationhood, and I concluded that I should prob ably know about this heritage attraction. We pulled off the highway and followed the signs to the site....
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Denson, Andrew. "Epilogue." In Monuments to Absence. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630830.003.0009.

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In 2012, small white signs began appearing next to monuments and roadside markers related to Cherokee history in western North Carolina and southeastern Tennessee. In red letters, printed in both the Cherokee syllabary and English, they stated simply, “we are still here.” I first noticed one of the signs on my commute to work. It showed up one day next to a North Carolina roadside marker indicating the boundary of Cherokee territory established by a land cession in 1802. The state marker was a typical colonial monument. It commemorated the transfer of territory from an indigenous people to the new settler nation, invoking Cherokees in order to account for their erasure. The new sign, however, deftly reworked the old, reminding passersby that this place is still Cherokee ground and that the Cherokee people remain present....
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Calloway, Colin G. "‘Have the Scotch no Claim upon the Cherokees?’ Scots, Indians and Scots Indians in the American South." In Global Migrations. Edinburgh University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474410045.003.0006.

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This chapter traces intermarriages between Scots and Indians and the families they established in the matrilineal indigenous societies of the American Southeast. It examines the roles played by Scots in the deerskin trade and in the British Indian department, and by their children in Creek and Cherokee history. It reconstructs the historic connections between Scots and Cherokees that endured after the Cherokees were forced west by US policies of Indian removal.
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Fullagar, Kate. "The Warrior-Diplomat." In The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist, 11–43. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300243062.003.0002.

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A narrative of the first half of Ostenaco’s life, it tells the story of the Cherokees from their first encounters with Europeans to the deadly Anglo-Cherokee War of 1760-61. Ostenaco’s life illuminates the Cherokees’ changing sense of themselves, from a town-based identity, to a region-based identity, to a nation-based identity. It also reveals an Indigenous face to the history of empire. We learn that, in Cherokee terms, the story of Ostenaco’s life started with his mother rather than with the actual fleshy entrance of his body into the world. From the description of Ostenaco’s childhood, we also learn about the peculiar gender dynamics of Cherokee society as well as its clan system, economic values, and overall embeddedness in the place of the Appalachians Mountains. By the 1740s, Ostenaco had gained the high-ranking military title of Mankiller; by the 1750s, he was allying with British officers like George Washington. In early 1760, deteriorating relations with multiple colonial centres lead Ostenaco abruptly to reject all colonial alliance.
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Denson, Andrew. "The Centennial." In Monuments to Absence. University of North Carolina Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469630830.003.0004.

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In 1938 civic and business leaders in Chattanooga organized an elaborate festival to mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga and the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of their city. While planning the festival, they added a third anniversary, the centennial of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. The festival became the period's single largest commemoration of Indian removal. This chapter explores the Chattanooga event as a particularly vivid example of the emergence of the Cherokee removal story within southern public memory in the interwar period. It traces the evolution of the removal centennial from a minor addendum to an elaborate program, arguing that the event helped to establish Cherokee history as a prominent element of this non-Indian city's public identity. It also describes Cherokee participation in the festival. Cherokees played several important roles in the centennial, but those roles were defined and closely scripted by local organizers. The chapter also explores relationships between the removal memory and more traditional commemorative themes, like the honoring of the Civil War dead and the celebration of community progress.
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