The Cherokees and Their Chiefs: In the Wake of EmpireUniversity of Arkansas Press, 01 հնվ, 1998 թ. - 350 էջ In this newly researched and synthesized history of the Cherokees, Hoig traces the displacement of the tribe and the Trail of Tears, the great trauma of the Civil War, the destruction of tribal autonomy, and the Cherokee people's phoenix-like rise in political and social stature during the twentieth century. |
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... Chief Dennis Bushyhead continued to maintain the office of chief and refused to turn the office over to the elected chief , Joel B. Mayes . The issue was not resolved until January 1888 , when a group of Mayes supporters went into the ...
... Chief Dennis Bushyhead continued to maintain the office of chief and refused to turn the office over to the elected chief , Joel B. Mayes . The issue was not resolved until January 1888 , when a group of Mayes supporters went into the ...
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... chief was a Cherokee.7 Cherokee tradition also supports the theory of migration from the north . Chief Charles Hicks , a noted and highly respected Cherokee intellectual , recounted an ancient oration as it was once recited annu- ally ...
... chief was a Cherokee.7 Cherokee tradition also supports the theory of migration from the north . Chief Charles Hicks , a noted and highly respected Cherokee intellectual , recounted an ancient oration as it was once recited annu- ally ...
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... Chief Corn Tassel and other chiefs in 1788 , it was the princi- pal Cherokee seat of government during the Cherokee conflicts with the English and Americans . 14 Timberlake described the Cherokee government as he found it in 1761 ...
... Chief Corn Tassel and other chiefs in 1788 , it was the princi- pal Cherokee seat of government during the Cherokee conflicts with the English and Americans . 14 Timberlake described the Cherokee government as he found it in 1761 ...
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... chief . The head chiefs and the war chiefs represented the top echelon of political dichotomy in the Cherokee Nation . They were , respectively , the White ( Peace ) and the Red ( War ) Groups — the person holding such a high office was ...
... chief . The head chiefs and the war chiefs represented the top echelon of political dichotomy in the Cherokee Nation . They were , respectively , the White ( Peace ) and the Red ( War ) Groups — the person holding such a high office was ...
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... chief was inferior to the peace chief , in times of crisis he was listened to and followed in lieu of the civil chief . While the peace chiefs led the people with calm reasoning , the war chiefs used high passion to urge warriors into ...
... chief was inferior to the peace chief , in times of crisis he was listened to and followed in lieu of the civil chief . While the peace chiefs led the people with calm reasoning , the war chiefs used high passion to urge warriors into ...
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A Wall to the Skies | 57 |
New Elder Brother | 67 |
An Effort at Arms | 79 |
The Agony of Removal | 163 |
Expulsion from Texas | 177 |
Reunion and Conflict | 191 |
New Nation Old Feuds | 205 |
A House Redivided | 219 |
Resisting Dissolution | 235 |
An End to Sovereignty | 247 |
The Fourth Phoenix | 259 |
Intrigue and Assassination | 89 |
As Long as Waters Flow | 101 |
A New Breed of Beloved Men | 115 |
Cherokee Nation West | 133 |
Dark Clouds Gathering | 145 |
Those Who Stayed Behind | 263 |
Notes | 269 |
Bibliography | 307 |
Index | 323 |
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Էջ 68 - I have a pipe and a little tobacco to give the commissioners to smoke in friendship. I look on you and the red people as my children. Your having determined on peace is most pleasing to me, for I have seen much trouble during the late war.
Էջ 130 - We appeal to the magnanimity of the American Congress for justice, and the protection of the rights, liberties, and lives of the Cherokee people. We claim it from the United States, by the strongest...
Էջ 63 - Indeed, much has been advanced on the want of what you term civilization among the Indians; and many proposals have been made to us to adopt your laws, your religion, your manners and your customs.
Էջ 167 - Georgia, especially, multitudes were allowed no time to take any thing with them, except the clothes they had on. Well-furnished houses were left a prey to plunderers, who, like hungry wolves, follow in the train of the captors. These wretches rifle the houses, and strip the helpless, unoffending owners of all they have on earth. Females, who have been habituated to comforts and comparative affluence, are .driven on foot before the bayonets of brutal men. Their feelings are mortified by vulgar and...
Էջ 167 - The Cherokees are nearly all prisoners. They have been dragged from their houses, and encamped at the forts and military posts, all over the nation.
Էջ 4 - Territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians, or to include any territory which, by treaty with any Indian tribe, is not, without the consent of said tribe, to be included within the territorial limits or jurisdiction of any State or Territory...
Էջ 161 - If one hundred persons are ignorant of their true situation and are so completely blinded as not to see the destruction that awaits them, we can see strong reasons to justify the action of a minority of fifty persons to do what the majority would do if they understood their condition, to save a nation from political thralldom and moral degradation.
Էջ 14 - ... that they can, by the wave of a swan's wing, deliver a wretch condemned by the council and already tied to the...
Էջ 68 - Your having determined on peace is most pleasing to me, for I have seen much trouble during the late war. I am old, but I hope yet to bear children, who will grow up and people our nation, as we are now to be under the protection of Congress and shall have no more disturbance. The talk I have given is from the young warriors I have raised in my town, as well as myself. They rejoice that we have peace, and we hope the chain of friendship will never more be broken.