Minister To The Cherokees

Author : James Anderson Slover
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0803242832

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Minister to the Cherokees by James Anderson Slover Pdf

In 1857 James Anderson Slover rode into Indian Territory as the first Southern Baptist missionary to the Cherokee Nation. As the Civil War began to divide the Cherokees along with the rest of the nation, Slover was caught up in one of the most intense dramas of his century. As a farmer, teacher, preacher and evangelist, observer of the Mexican War and the Civil War, contemporary commentator on slavery, and California pioneer, Slover played a small role in changing the face of the nation. It was in 1907, a year after he helped build shelters for people left homeless by the great San Francisco earthquake, that he began composing a record of his eventful life. The resulting book is a wonderful gift to any reader curious about the life and culture of nineteenth-century America. Slover tells of flatboating down rivers from Tennessee to Arkansas, "skedaddling" from the Union army in Indian Territory, and working his way up the West Coast to Oregon, preaching the gospel as he went and carving a new life for himself and his family time after time. His autobiography, encompassing eighty-three years of his life and spanning most of a century, gives us a vivid picture of a lost world and of how it was experienced by an ordinary man in extraordinary times.

Author : William L. Anderson,James Allen Lewis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 081081630X

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A Guide to Cherokee Documents in Foreign Archives by William L. Anderson,James Allen Lewis Pdf

Professors Anderson and Lewis have compiled a guide to documents abroad that focuses on the Cherokee Indians. Exploring the archives of the three major colonial powers in the New World (England, France, and Spain), this guide describes over eight thousand documents that cover the Cherokee past from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Author : Russell Thornton
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803294107

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The Cherokees by Russell Thornton Pdf

The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. He discusses their mysterious origins, their first contact with Europeans (prob-ably in 1540), and their fluctuation in population during the eighteenth century, when the Old World brought them smallpox. The toll taken by massive relocations in the following century, most notably the removal of the Cherokees from the Southeast to In-dian Territory, and by warfare, predating the American Revolution and including the Civil War, also enters into Thornton's calculations. He goes on to measure the resurgence of the Cherokees in the twentieth century, focusing on such population centers as North Carolina, Oklahoma, and California.

Author : William G. McLoughlin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400860319

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Champions of the Cherokees by William G. McLoughlin Pdf

Champions of the Cherokees is the story of two extraordinary Northern Baptist missionaries, father and son, who lived with the Cherokee Indians from 1821 to 1876. Told largely in the words of these outspoken and compassionate men, this is also a narrative of the Cherokees' sufferings at the hands of the United States government and white frontier dwellers. In addition, it is an analysis of the complexity of interracial relations in the United States, for the Cherokees adopted the white man's custom of black chattel slavery. This fascinating biography reveals the unusual extent to which Evan and John B. Jones challenged prevailing federal Indian policies: unlike most other missionaries, they supported the Indians' right to retain their own identity and national autonomy. William McLoughlin vividly describes the "trail of tears" over which the Cherokees and Evan Jones traveled eight hundred miles through the dead of winter--from Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina to a new home in Oklahoma. He examines the difficulties that Jones encountered when, alone among all the missionaries, he expelled Cherokee slaveholders from his mission churches. This book depicts the Joneses' experiences during the Civil War, including their chaplaincy of two Cherokee regiments who fought with the Northern side. Finally, McLoughlin tells how these "champions of the Cherokees" were adopted into the Cherokee nation and helped them fight detribalization. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Sharlotte Neely
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780820340746

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Snowbird Cherokees by Sharlotte Neely Pdf

This is the first ethnographic study of Snowbird, North Carolina, a remote mountain community of Cherokees who are regarded as simultaneously the most traditional and the most adaptive members of the entire tribe. Through historical research, contemporary fieldwork, and situational analysis, Sharlotte Neely explains the Snowbird paradox and portrays the inhabitants' daily lives and culture. At the core of her study are detailed examinations of two expressions of Snowbird's cultural self-awareness--its ongoing struggle for fair political representation on the tribal council and its yearly Trail of Tears Singing, a gathering point for all North Carolina and Oklahoma Cherokees concerned with cultural conservation.

Author : William G. McLoughlin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820331386

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The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870 by William G. McLoughlin Pdf

In The Cherokees and Christianity, William G. McLoughlin examines how the process of religious acculturation worked within the Cherokee Nation during the nineteenth century. More concerned with Cherokee "Christianization" than Cherokee "civilization," these eleven essays cover the various stages of cultural confrontation with Christian imperialism. The first section of the book explores the reactions of the Cherokee to the inevitable clash between Christian missionaries and their own religious leaders, as well as their many and varied responses to slavery. In part two, McLoughlin explores the crucial problem of racism that divided the southern part of North America into red, white and black long before 1776 and considers the ways in which the Cherokees either adapted Christianity to their own needs or rejected it as inimical to their identity.

Author : Grace Steele Woodward
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 0806118156

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The Cherokees by Grace Steele Woodward Pdf

Of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians the Cherokees were early recognized as the greatest and the most civilized. Indeed, between 1540 and 1906 they reached a higher peak of civilization than any other North American Indian tribe. They invented a syllabary and developed an intricate government, including a system of courts of law. They published their own newspaper in both Cherokee and English and became noted as orators and statesmen. At the beginning the Cherokees’ conquest of civilization was agonizingly slow and uncertain. Warlords of the southern Appalachian Highlands, they were loath to expend their energies elsewhere. In the words of a British officer, "They are like the Devil’s pigg, they will neither lead nor drive." But, led or driven, the warlike and willful Cherokees, lingering in the Stone Age by choice at the turn of the eighteenth century, were forced by circumstances to transfer their concentration on war to problems posed by the white man. To cope with these unwelcome problems, they had to turn from the conquests of war to the conquest of civilization.

Author : Carolyn Johnston
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817350567

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Cherokee Women In Crisis by Carolyn Johnston Pdf

"American Indian women have traditionally played vital roles in social hierarchies, including at the family, clan, and tribal levels. In the Cherokee Nation, specifically, women and men are considered equal contributors to the culture. With this study we learn that three key historical events in the 19th and early 20th centuries-removal, the Civil War, and allotment of their lands-forced a radical renegotiation of gender roles and relations in Cherokee society."--Back cover.

Author : Emmet Starr
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folklore by Emmet Starr Pdf

Cherokee historian and genealogist Emmet Starr's greatest legacy was his 1922 "History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folklore." It remains an invaluable resource for Cherokee historians and geneologists.

Author : Rev. Rufus ANDERSON (the Younger.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1825
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020195171

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Memoir of Catharine Brown, a Christian Indian, of the Cherokee nation by Rev. Rufus ANDERSON (the Younger.) Pdf

Author : Andrew Denson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803294677

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Demanding the Cherokee Nation by Andrew Denson Pdf

Demanding the Cherokee Nation examines nineteenth-century Cherokee political rhetoric in reassessing an enigma in American Indian history: the contradiction between the sovereignty of Indian nations and the political weakness of Indian communities. Drawing from a rich collection of petitions, appeals, newspaper editorials, and other public records, Andrew Denson describes the ways in which Cherokees represented their people and their nation to non-Indians after their forced removal to Indian Territory in the 1830s. He argues that Cherokee writings on nationhood document a decades-long effort by tribal leaders to find a new model for American Indian relations in which Indian nations could coexist with a modernizing United States. Most non-Natives in the nineteenth century assumed that American development and progress necessitated the end of tribal autonomy, and that at best the Indian nation was a transitional state for Native people on the path to assimilation. As Denson shows, however, Cherokee leaders articulated a variety of ways in which the Indian nation, as they defined it, belonged in the modern world. Tribal leaders responded to developments in the United States and adapted their defense of Indian autonomy to the great changes transforming American life in the middle and late nineteenth century, notably also providing cogent new justification for Indian nationhood within the context of emergent American industrialization.

Author : Theda Perdue
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803235860

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Cherokee Women by Theda Perdue Pdf

Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. While building on the research of earlier historians, she develops a uniquely complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, arguing that Cherokee conceptions of gender persisted long after contact. Maintaining traditional gender roles actually allowed Cherokee women and men to adapt to new circumstances and adopt new industries and practices.

Author : Deborah L. Duvall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0738507822

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Tahlequah and the Cherokee Nation by Deborah L. Duvall Pdf

These pages are filled with memories and favorite tales that capture the essence of life in the Cherokee Nation. Ms. Duvall invites the reader to follow the tribe from its pre-historic days in the southeast, to early 20th century life in the Cookson Hills of Oklahoma. Learn about Pretty Woman, who had the power over life and death, or the mystical healing springs of Tahlequah. Spend some time with U.S. Deputy Marshals as they roam the old Cherokee Nation in pursuit of Indian Territory outlaws like Zeke Proctor and Charlie Wickliffe, or wander the famous haunted places where ghost horses still travel an ancient trail and the spirits of long-dead Spaniards still search for gold.

Author : Theda Perdue,Ada Elizabeth Deer
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Cherokee Indians
ISBN : 9781438103686

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The Cherokees by Theda Perdue,Ada Elizabeth Deer Pdf

Discusses the history of the Cherokee Indians, including origins, contact with Europeans, and their struggle to survive into the twenty-first century.

Author : Dan B. Wimberly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0881466077

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Cherokee in Controversy by Dan B. Wimberly Pdf

Jesse Bushyhead was a detachment leader during the forced Indian removal on what has become known as the Trail of Tears. In this capacity, he was responsible for the safe conduct of more than 900 emigrants from Tennessee to Indian Territory in eastern Oklahoma. After the journey, Bushyhead was a principal participant in the formation of the new Cherokee government, providing stability in the turbulent and often internecine struggle between factions. And although without legal training, he served the new government as a chief justice of the Cherokee Supreme Court. Yet during these challenges, Bushyhead, also a Baptist minister, assisted missionary Evan Jones in establishing a vibrant Baptist presence among Cherokees. However, some aspects of Bushyhead's life are more complex. As an interpreter and member of the middle class, he was a key figure in bridging the gap between the white world and Cherokees. But the removal issue divided his tribe and family, resulting in the murders of two close family members. Bushyhead himself received several death threats. Finally, his views on slavery provoked negative responses from abolitionists within Baptist ranks and sparked the separation of denominational lines between North and South. Book jacket.