Charles Royce

The Cherokee Nation

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume, presents the succession of treaties between 1785 and 1868 that reduced the holdings of the Cherokee Nation east of the Mississippi and culminated in their removal to Indian territory. Each document is accompanied by a detailed description of its antecedent conditions, the negotiations that led up to it, and its consequences. The events described here ended more than a century ago, but the motives and actions of the participants and the effects of the compromises and decisions they made are sadly familiar. The story presented here needs to be understood by everyone concerned with the survival of diverse ways of life and the quality of the relationships among peoples. The impersonal style of Royce's presentation enhances the poignancy of the Cherokee experience. Repeated declarations of peace and perpetual friendship contrast with repeated violations of treaties approved by Congress and the impotence of a people to defend their ancestral lands. The Cherokee "trail of broken treaties" has left us with a heritage of guilt and frustration that we have yet to overcome. The Native American Library, in which this volume appears, has been initiated by the National Anthropological Archives of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, to publish original works by Indians and reprints selected by the tribes involved. Royce's work, which was included in the Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, is republished at the request of the Governing Body of the Cherokee Nation. The original text is prefaced by an evaluation of Royce and his work by Richard Mack Bettis and contains several illustrations not included in the earlier edition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780202309446
• ISBN-10: 0202309444
• Artikelnr.: 21324003

Autorenporträt

Charles Royce

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Treaty of November 28
1785
Treaty of July 2
1791
Treaty of February 17
1792
Treaty of June 26
1794
Treaty of October 2
1798
Treaty of October 24
1804
Treaties of October 25 and 27
1805
Treaty of January 7
1806
Treaty of September 11
1807
Treaties of March 22
1816
Treaty of September 14
1816
Treaty of July 8
1817
Treaty of February 27
1819
Treaty of May 6
1828
Treaty of February 14
1833
Treaty of December 29
1835
Treaty of August 6
1846
Treaty of July 19
1866
Treaty of April 27
1868
General Remarks