The Cherokees in War & at Peace 1670-1840
A century and a half of Cherokee diplomacy, warfare and forced removal, told with the Cherokee as political actors negotiating among empires rather than as victims of history.
Narrett follows the Cherokee across a century and a half of diplomacy, warfare and forced removal, treating them as political actors negotiating among competing empires rather than as a people to whom history simply happened. There were perhaps twenty thousand of them in 1700, and the reconstruction of their statecraft from that base is the achievement of the book.
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Tyler Cowen
An excellent book, one of the two best books on a single Native American tribe I have read. The book actually aims at explaining the Cherokees and enlightening the reader – how rare.
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