Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic

by William G. McLoughlin

Overview

The Cherokees, the most important tribe in the formative years of the American Republic, became the test case for the Founding Fathers' determination to Christianize and "civilize" all Indians and to incorporate them into the republic as full citizens. From the standpoint of the Cherokees, rather than from that of the white policymakers, William McLoughlin tells the dramatic success story of the "renascence" of the tribe. He goes on to give a full account of how the Cherokees eventually fell before the expansionism of white America and the zeal of Andrew Jackson.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691186481
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	06/05/2018
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Format:	eBook
Pages:	496
File size:	68 MB
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Table of Contents

	List of Illustrations	xi
	List of Tables	xii
	Acknowledgments	xiii
	Preface	xv
	List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes	xxi
1.	Changing Cherokee Ways, 1690-1790	3
2.	Disorientation and Restructuring, 1794-1810	33
3.	Starting Farms and Debating the Augusta-Nashville Road, 1799-1804	58
4.	The Sale of the Hunting Grounds, 1805-1806	92
5.	The Revolt of the Young Chiefs, 1806-1807	109
6.	Efforts to Divide the Nation, 1808-1809	128
7.	The First Step toward Nationalism, 1808-1810	146
8.	The Ghost Dance Movement, 1811-1812	168
9.	The Creek War, 1812-1814	186
10.	National Unity Falters, 1816-1817	206
11.	The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1817-1819	228
12.	"Friends at the North," 1819	247
13.	The Creek Path Conspiracy, 1819-1822, and the Experiment in Citizenship, 1818-1832	260
14.	Cherokee Renascence, 1819-1829: Politics and Economics	277
15.	Testing the Limits of Sovereignty, 1819-1826	302
16.	Class, Gender, and Race in the New Cherokee State, 1819-1827	326
17.	Sequoyah and the Christians, 1819-1827	350
18.	Too Much Acculturation, 1824-1828	366
19.	Rebellion against the Constitution, 1827	388
20.	The Removal Crisis of 1828	411
21.	The Missionaries and the Supreme Court, 1829-1833	428
	Epilogue: The End of the Cherokee Renascence, 1833	448
	Bibliography	453
	Index	461

Editorial Reviews

"This is more than a chronicle of events in Cherokee history during this decisive period, although the material covered here has not been better treated before. McLoughlin includes not only the tribe's relations with the federal government but also the internal divisions that seemed likely to split the nation on several occasions."—-Gary E. Moulton, American Historical Review

"A masterfully crafted, meticulously documented analysis of Cherokee acculturation between 1794 and 1833."—-Mary Young, Journal of the Early Republic

From the Publisher

A masterfully crafted, meticulously documented analysis of Cherokee acculturation between 1794 and 1833.

Journal of the Early Republic - Mary Young

This is more than a chronicle of events in Cherokee history during this decisive period, although the material covered here has not been better treated before. McLoughlin includes not only the tribe's relations with the federal government but also the internal divisions that seemed likely to split the nation on several occasions.

American Historical Review - Gary E. Moulton

A masterfully crafted, meticulously documented analysis of Cherokee acculturation between 1794 and 1833.
— Mary Young

Journal of the Early Republic

This is more than a chronicle of events in Cherokee history during this decisive period, although the material covered here has not been better treated before. McLoughlin includes not only the tribe's relations with the federal government but also the internal divisions that seemed likely to split the nation on several occasions.
— Gary E. Moulton

American Historical Review