Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East

Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East

by Vicki Rozema
Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East

Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East

by Vicki Rozema

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Overview

From the time they established formal ties with Great Britain in 1730, the Cherokees had a rocky relationship with white settlers. They found grounds for dispute over trade practices, territorial control, and the complicated loyalties among the various Indian tribes and European powers. Over the years, the Cherokees struggled to maintain their ancient traditions as the tribe was assimilated into the white man’s culture. Cherokee Voices uses the participants’ own words to tell the story of early Cherokee life. The selections were gathered from journals, treaty records, and correspondence written by Cherokees or by Europeans or Americans who knew them. The excerpts begin with the 1730 visit of Alexander Cuming, who appointed an “emperor” for the Cherokees. Touching on matters as varied as the Cherokees’ oral tradition, their village life, their ball games, their treaties with white settlers, their famous Cherokee Phoenix newspaper, and their education in Christian mission schools, the chapters take readers from when the Cherokees were dependent on European trade to when they became self-sufficient farmers and tradesmen. Unlike most books about the Cherokees, written in the third person by authors who lived years after the events, this one recognizes that no one can speak more eloquently of their lives, trials, and customs than the people themselves.

Vicki Rozema is the author of Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation and Voices from the Trail of Tears. The first edition of Footsteps of the Cherokees received an Award of Merit from the Tennessee Historical Commission in 1996. Also an acclaimed photographer, she is a history professor at the University of Tennessee.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780895872708
Publisher: Blair
Publication date: 01/01/2002
Series: Real Voices, Real History Series
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.50(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Vicki Rozema is the author of Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation and Voices from the Trail of Tears. The first edition of Footsteps of the Cherokees received an Award of Merit from the Tennessee Historical Commission in 1996. Also an acclaimed photographer, she is a history professor at the University of Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Prefaceix
Hands and Hearts Joined Together, 17303
Excerpt from the Articles of Friendship & Commerce ...7
Answer of the Indian Chiefs ...11
Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life of Sir Alexander Cuming of Culter, Baronet13
The Price of a White Shirt, 1751-5315
"List of the Prices of Goods"17
Excerpt from Governor Glen's talks with Little Carpenter ...19
A Second Peace, 1761-6232
Excerpts from The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake35
Welcome in Their Country As a Friend and Brother, 177648
Excerpt from William Bartram's Travels through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida ...50
Too Near the Shore, 178061
Excerpts from John Donelson's Journal of a Voyage ...63
A Pipe and a Little Tobacco, 178573
Excerpts from talks at the Treaty of Hopewell75
Blood Is Spilt at Both of Our Houses, 179386
Reports concerning the attack on Hanging Maw's house89
According to the Law of This Country, 1801-02101
Excerpts from the daybook of Return J. Meigs104
An Ardent Zeal, 1818115
Report on the Brainerd Mission ...118
Letter from Catharine Brown to William and Flora Chamberlain at the Brainerd Mission124
To Rise from Their Ashes, 1828-31127
Excerpts from the Cherokee Phoenix130
The Manly Game of Ball-playing, 1848141
Excerpt from Charles Lanman's Letters from the Alleghany Mountains142
Sound from the Distant Mountains: The Cherokee Storytellers, 1887-90148
"The First Fire"152
"The Ice Man"154
"The Removed Townhouses"155
Endnotes158
Bibliography169
Index173
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