Multitribal Indians in search of no man's land : : the American expansion and the chickamaugans between resistance and migration /

Multitribal Indians in search of no man's land : : the American expansion and the chickamaugans between resistance and migration / / Carla Toney.

During the American westward expansion, Chickamaugans, originally Cherokees, prioritized resistance to the U.S. government and Euro-American invaders. They signed treaties with Great Britain and Spain. Overlooked by scholars, it was the "diplomatic savvy" of Chickamaugan women and the supp...

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Superior document:Migration in Wirtschaft, Geschichte & Gesellschaft
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Toney, Carla,
Place / Publishing House:Göttingen : : V&R Unipress,, [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Migration in Wirtschaft, Geschichte & Gesellschaft
Physical Description:1 online resource (505 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Body
  • Preface by the Editors
  • Introduction
  • Part One: "Multitribal Indians"
  • 1. Multitribal Confederations and Cultural Fluidity
  • 2. Divide and Conquer
  • 3. Multitribal Resistance: The Chickamaugans
  • 4. The Reinvention of Native American Society
  • 5. Death of a Chickamaugan Warrior: The Murder of Major Ridge
  • 6. Loyalists in the Backcountry
  • Part Two: In the Beginning
  • 7. Feudal America
  • 8. New Laws, New Lords, New Tyrants: Myths of the American Revolution
  • 9. Involuntary Migrants: Rogues, Rebels and Rattlesnakes
  • 10. Red Gold: Indian Slaves
  • 11. Voluntary Migrants: the Runaways
  • Photos
  • Part Three: No Man's Land
  • 12. Flight to Turnip Mountain
  • 13. Rebellion in the Cherokee Nation
  • 14. Turnip Mountain and the Removal Party
  • 15. Migration to California: the Journey of Thomas Buffalo
  • 16. Exodus
  • 17. Two thousand miles: from the King's Rangers to the Imperial Valley
  • 18. Wilma Mankiller: a Daughter of Turnip Moutain
  • 19. California Remnants of the Chickamaugan Resistance
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices
  • Appendix 1: Signatories of the 1835 Treaty of New Echota
  • Appendix 2: Western Cherokees who participated in the Act of Union, 23 August 1839
  • Appendix 3: Chickamaugans and their allies
  • Appendix 4: Brainerd / Chickamauga scholars and church members
  • Appendix 5: Candy's Creek scholars and church members
  • Appendix 6: Carmel scholars and church members
  • Appendix 7: Creek Path scholars and church members
  • Appendix 8: Hightower / Pumpkin Vine Creek scholars and church members
  • Appendix 9: Springplace scholars
  • Appendix 10: Willstown scholars and church members
  • Appendix 11: Turnip Mountain residents (persons and dates)
  • Appendix 12: Turnip Mountain timeline
  • Appendix 13: Cherokee Nation West, Dwight scholars.
  • Appendix 14: Cherokee Nation West, Fairfield church members 1840
  • Appendix 15: The Choctaw Academy
  • Appendix 16: Shawnee Methodist Mission and Indian Manual Labor School
  • Appendix 17: Overland Migrants: Arizona, California, New Mexico
  • Appendix 18: San Francisco Arrivals
  • Appendix 19: Dragging Canoe's talk, 1776
  • Appendix 20: British Loyalists Found in the Draper Collection
  • Appendix 21: Texas and Western Cherokee Names
  • Appendix 22: Mendocino 1870 census (partial)
  • Appendix 23: Applications for the Eastern Cherokee Roll of 1909 (Guion Miller Roll)
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of abbreviations
  • A Note about Sources
  • Bibliography.

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