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Texas Cherokees, The - A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840

By: University of Oklahoma Press

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (University of Oklahoma Press)

Last Stocked on 8/17/2022

Product Info

Title
Texas Cherokees, The - A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840
Category
Author
Dianna Everett
Publish Year
1990
Pages
188
Dimensions
5.75x8.8x1"
NKG Part #
2147480749
Type
Hardcover

Description

In 1819 to 1820 several hundred Cherokees-led by Duwali, a chief from Tennessee-settled along the Sabine, Neches, and Angelina rivers in east Texas. Welcomed by Mexico as a buffer to U.S. settlement, Duwali’s people had separated from other Western Cherokees in an effort to retain the tribe’s traditional lifeways. As Dianne Everett details in The Texas Cherokees, they found themselves "caught between two fires" in many respects: between the Cherokee ideal of harmony and the reality of factionalism, between white settlers pushing westward and western Indians resisting incursions, and between traditional ways and the practical necessity of accommodating to whites.