1st Edition

Historical Sketch of the Cherokee

By James Mooney Copyright 2005
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

287 Pages
by Routledge

When James Mooney lived with and studied the Cherokee between 1887 and 1900, they were the largest and most important Indian tribe in the United States. His dispassionate account of their history from the time of their first contact with whites until the end of the nineteenth century is more than a sequence of battles won and lost, treaties signed and broken, towns destroyed and people massacred.... Read more
The Traditionary Period; The Period of Spanish Exploration—1540–?; The Colonial and Revolutionary Period—1654–1784; Relations with the United States from the first treaty to the removal—1785–1838; The Removal—1838–39; The Arkansas Band—1817–1838; The Cherokee Nation in the West—1840–1900; The Eastern Band; III—Notes to the Historical Sketch

Biography

James Mooney