Bibliograph

The Cherokee diaspora, an indigenous history of migration, resettlement, and identity, Gregory D. Smithers

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The Cherokee diaspora, an indigenous history of migration, resettlement, and identity, Gregory D. Smithers

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-345) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Cherokee diaspora

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

910504335

Responsibility statement

Gregory D. Smithers

Series statement

The Lamar series in Western history

Sub title

an indigenous history of migration, resettlement, and identity

Summary

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement, Gregory Smithers uncovers the origins of the Cherokee Diaspora and explores how communities and individuals have negotiated their Cherokee identities, even when geographically removed from the Cherokee Nation headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Beginning in the eighteenth century, the author transports the reader back in time to tell the poignant story of the Cherokee people migrating throughout North America, including their forced exile along the infamous Trail of Tears (1838-39). Smithers tells a remarkable story of courage, cultural innovation, and resilience, exploring the importance of migration and removal, land and tradition, culture and language in defining what it has meant to be Cherokee for a widely scattered people

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