Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic / / William G. McLoughlin.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: McLoughlin, William G.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations Used in the Notes -- One. Changing Cherokee Ways, 1690-1790 -- Two. Disorientation and Restructuring, 1794-1810 -- Three. Starting Farms and Debating the Augusta-Nashville Road, 1799-1804 -- Four. The Sale of the Hunting Grounds, 1805-1806 -- Five. The Revolt of the Young Chiefs, 1806-1807 -- Six. Efforts to Divide the Nation, 1808-1809 -- Seven. The First Step toward Nationalism, 1808-1810 -- Eight. The Ghost Dance Movement, 1811-1812 -- Nine. The Creek War, 1812-1814 -- Ten. National Unity Falters, 1816-1817 -- Eleven. The Struggle for Sovereignty, 1817-1819 -- Twelve. "Friends at the North, " 1819 -- Thirteen. The Creek Path Conspiracy, 1819-1822, and the Experiment in Citizenship, 1818-1832 -- Fourteen. Cherokee Renascence, 1819-1829: Politics and Economics -- Fifteen. Testing the Limits of Sovereignty, 1819-1826 -- Sixteen. Class, Gender, and Race in the New Cherokee State, 1819-1827 -- Seventeen. Sequoyah and the Christians, 1819-1827 -- Eighteen. Too Much Acculturation, 1824-1828 -- Nineteen. Rebellion against the Constitution, 1827 -- Twenty. The Removal Crisis of 1828 -- Twenty-one. The Missionaries and the Supreme Court, 1829-1833 -- Epilogue. The End of the Cherokee Renascence, 1833 -- Bibliography -- Index