The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840 - Couverture souple

Everett, Dianna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0806127201 ISBN 13 : 9780806127200

Editeur : University of Oklahoma Press, 1995

Synopsis

In 1819 to 1820 several hundred Cherokees-led by Duwali, a chief from Tennessee-settled along the Sabine, Neches, and Angelina rivers in east Texas. Welcomed by Mexico as a buffer to U.S. settlement, Duwali's people had separated from other Western Cherokees in an effort to retain the tribe's traditional lifeways. As Dianne Everett details in The Texas Cherokees, they found themselves "caught between two fires" in many respects: between the Cherokee ideal of harmony and the reality of factionalism, between white settlers pushing westward and western Indians resisting incursions, and between traditional ways and the practical necessity of accommodating to whites.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dianna Everett holds the doctorate in history from Texas Tech University. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture and is affiliated with the Oklahoma Historical Society.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Oklahoma Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0806127201
• ISBN 13: 9780806127200
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
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