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Trail of Tears : the Story of the American Indian Removals, 1813-1855 (75 Edition)
by Gloria Jahoda  Publisher Comments Insightful, rarely told history of Indian courage in the face of White expansionism in the 19th century. Truth-telling tale of the ruthless brutality that forced the Native American population into resettlement camps and reservations, with a look at the...
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The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears (Penguin Library of American Indian History)
by Theda Perdue Publisher Comments In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known...
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The Wind is My Mother: The Life and Teachings of a Native American Shaman
by Bear Heart Publisher Comments With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world. Bear Heart is both a healer and a "road man" of the Native...
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The Cherokees: A Population History
by Russell Thornton Publisher Comments "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...
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Selu: Seeking the Corn-Mother's Wisdom
by Marilou Awiakta Synopsis "A candid, autobiographical record--part story, part essay, part poetry--Selu is also an example of an expanding list of recent and forthcoming books that herald a more interior way of viewing the Native American experience".--Publishers Weekly. Line...
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Cherokee Trail of Tears
by Duane King Publisher Comments In 1838, Federal troops imprisoned 13,000 Cherokees in preparation for the Cherokees' removal from their native lands in the southeastern United States to the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma. The removal of the Cherokees lasted two years and...
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Our Land Before We Die
by Jeff Guinn Publisher Comments "A remarkable story brilliantly told." (Bill Bryson) "In Our Land Before We Die, Jeff Guinn embarks on a personal quest to explore the heartbreaking--yet ultimately inspiring--legacy on the Seminole Negro Indians in their search for freedom. The result...
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Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation
by John Ehle Publisher Comments In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, this is the searing story of the Cherokee Nation, its people, its legends, and its leaden. Rich with Indian lore and religion, this monumental narrative history is a gripping account of American power...
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Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America
by Joshua Piker Publisher Comments A work of original scholarship and compelling sweep, "Okfuskee" is a community-centered Indian history with an explicitly comparativist agenda. Joshua Piker uses the history of Okfuskee, an eighteenth-century Creek town, to reframe standard narratives of...
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Cherokee Women : Gender and Culture Change, 1700
by Theda Perdue Publisher Comments 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...
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Milford's Memoir: A Cursory Glance at My Different Travels & My Sojourn in the Creek Nation
by Leclerc De Milford Publisher Comments In 1775 Louis LeClerc de Milford traveled from France to America, where he became a member of the Greek Confederacy, and eventually rose to Grand War Chief, commander of all Creek forces....
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Civilization of the American Indian #255: Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths
by Greg Obrien Publisher Comments In the past two decades, new research and thinking have dramatically reshaped our understanding of Choctaw history before removal. Greg O'Brien brings together in a single volume ten groundbreaking essays that reveal where Choctaw history has been and...
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Tales of the Tepee
by Edward Dale Publisher Comments Tales of the Tepee grew out of Edward Everett Dale’s close association with Indian tribes living in Oklahoma. During territorial days young Dale rode, hunted, and visited with the Kiowas, Comanches, and Wichitas. Later he taught many Cherokees,...
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William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians (Indians of the Southeast)
by Gregory Waselkov Publisher Comments In this splendid volume, editors Gregory A. Waselkov and Kathryn E. Holland Braund pull together from a variety of published and archival sources Bartram's observations on Southeastern Indians, particularly the Creeks, Seminoles, and Cherokees...
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Walking the Trail: One Man's Journey Along the Cherokee Trail of Tears
by Jerry Ellis Synopsis A moving account of one man's spiritual journey along the Cherokee Trail of Tears. Initially searching for his Native American roots, Ellis spent two months walking some 900 miles along lonely roads, through small towns, and among strangers....
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Footsteps of the Cherokees: A Guide to the Eastern Homelands of the Cherokee Nation
by Vicki Rozema Book News Annotation This guide to historically significant sites related to the Cherokee Nation received an Award of Merit from the Tennessee Historical Commission in 1996. This new edition covers 190 Cherokee sites in five southeastern states: Tennessee, North Carolina,...
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Households and Hegemony: Early Creek Prestige Goods, Symbolic Capital, and Social Power
by Cameron B Wesson Publisher Comments The long-term significance of the household as a social and economic force—particularly in relation to authority positions or institutions—has remained relatively unexplored in North American archaeology. Households and Hegemony makes a...
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Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World
by Robbie Ethridge Publisher Comments Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Ethridge presents a compelling portrait of a culture in economic, political, and ecological crisis; of its resiliency in the...
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Buffalo Tiger: A Life in the Everglades (Indians of the Southeast)
by Buffalo Tiger Publisher Comments In 1959 a group of Miccosukee Indians, frustrated in their attempts to gain official recognition by the United States, met with Fidel Castro and were recognized by the Cuban government. The man behind this unprecedented move to provoke the United States...
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Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation
by Izumi Ishii Publisher Comments Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree examines the role of alcohol among the Cherokees through more than two hundred years, from contact with white traders until Oklahoma reached statehood in 1907. While acknowledging the addictive and socially destructive...
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