The Cherokees and Their Chiefs

$26.95

In the Wake of Empire
Stanley W. Hoig
978-1-55728-528-7 (paper)
July 1999

 

In this newly researched and synthesized history of the Cherokees, Hoig traces the displacement of the tribe and the Trail of Tears, the great trauma of the Civil War, the destruction of tribal autonomy, and the Cherokee people’s phoenix-like rise in political and social stature during the twentieth century.

A History Book Club selection.