Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation [electronic resource] : Town, Region, and Nation among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees /
Boulware, Tyler.
Gainesville : University Press of Florida,
c2011.
This significant contribution to Cherokee studies examines the tribe's life during the eighteenth century, up to the Removal. By revealing town loyalties and regional alliances, Tyler Boulware uncovers a persistent identification hierarchy among the colonial Cherokee.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This significant contribution to Cherokee studies examines the tribe's life during the eighteenth century, up to the Removal. By revealing town loyalties and regional alliances, Tyler Boulware uncovers a persistent identification hierarchy among the colonial Cherokee.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Town, region, and nation -- "The antient friendship and union" : the Anglo-Cherokee alliance -- "In constant hostility with the Muskohge" : the Cherokee-Creek War -- "The disaffected people of great Tellico" : the struggle for empire in a Cherokee town -- "In a discontented mood" : the crisis in Virginia -- "Every town wept for some" : the Anglo-Cherokee War --"Now all our talks are about lands" : unstable borderlands -- "Half war half peace" : the American Revolution in Cherokee country -- Epilogue : toward the Cherokee Nation.
Description based on print version record.
Group identity
Cherokee Indians
Cherokee Indians