James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees write by James Mooney. This book was released on 1992. James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The complete texts of Myths of the Cherokee and The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees by James Mooney, accompanied by an introduction by George Ellison.
The Cherokees
The Cherokees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cherokees write by Grace Steele Woodward. This book was released on 1963. The Cherokees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870
The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870 write by William G. McLoughlin. This book was released on 2008. The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Cherokees of the Old South
Cherokees of the Old South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cherokees of the Old South write by Henry Thompson Malone. This book was released on 2010-04-01. Cherokees of the Old South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1956, this book traces the progress of the Cherokee people, beginning with their native social and political establishments, and gradually unfurling to include their assimilation into “white civilization.” Henry Thompson Malone deals mainly with the social developments of the Cherokees, analyzing the processes by which they became one of the most civilized Native American tribes. He discusses the work of missionaries, changes in social customs, government, education, language, and the bilingual newspaper The Cherokee Phoenix. The book explains how the Cherokees developed their own hybrid culture in the mountainous areas of the South by inevitably following in the white man's footsteps while simultaneously holding onto the influences of their ancestors.
After the Trail of Tears
After the Trail of Tears - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook After the Trail of Tears write by William G. McLoughlin. This book was released on 2014-07-01. After the Trail of Tears available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This powerful narrative traces the social, cultural, and political history of the Cherokee Nation during the forty-year period after its members were forcibly removed from the southern Appalachians and resettled in what is now Oklahoma. In this master work, completed just before his death, William McLoughlin not only explains how the Cherokees rebuilt their lives and society, but also recounts their fight to govern themselves as a separate nation within the borders of the United States. Long regarded by whites as one of the 'civilized' tribes, the Cherokees had their own constitution (modeled after that of the United States), elected officials, and legal system. Once re-settled, they attempted to reestablish these institutions and continued their long struggle for self-government under their own laws--an idea that met with bitter opposition from frontier politicians, settlers, ranchers, and business leaders. After an extremely divisive fight within their own nation during the Civil War, Cherokees faced internal political conflicts as well as the destructive impact of an influx of new settlers and the expansion of the railroad. McLoughlin brings the story up to 1880, when the nation's fight for the right to govern itself ended in defeat at the hands of Congress.
