Oblivion's Altar

Kah-nung-da-tla-geh—the great
Cherokee chieftain known as the
Ridge—was born with one foot in each of
the two worlds. The first was that of his
ancestors, the great Cherokee Nation,
who once settled across the lower plains,
their culture flourishing, their position
secure. But the arrival of the white man
changed life as the Ridge knew it forever,
ushering in a new world of forced
change, war, death, and misery.
It was the Ridge’s visionary leadership
that led the Cherokee into the future as
one nation—...