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The Cherokees
Recommended Readings
Disclaimer:
The Murrell Home/Oklahoma Historical Society do not officially endorse
the following works. This list is
provided only as a guide for researchers, and the Murrell Home is not
responsible for the content found in these publications.
Though some of these works
may be out of print, many of the books listed here may be found at public or
university libraries and obtained through inter-library loan. Some may be ordered through the OHS Publications Division
or the University of Oklahoma Press. The OHS journal, Chronicles of Oklahoma,
also has a wealth of information on the Cherokees.
Cherokees
Carter, Kent. The Dawes Commission. Ancestry.com, 1999.
Ehle, John. Trail
of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. New
York: Anchor Press, Doubleday Press,
1988.
Gregory, Jack and Rennard Strickland. Starr’s History of the Cherokee Indians. Fayetteville, Arkansas: Indian
Heritage Association, 1967.
Hampton, David. Cherokee
Mixed Bloods. Lincoln, Arkansas: ARC
Press of Cane Hill, 2005.
Journal of Cherokee Studies. Museum of the Cherokee Indian. Cherokee, North
Carolina.
King, Duane H., ed.
The Cherokee Indian Nation: A Troubled History. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
1979.
McLoughlin, William G.
After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees’ Struggle for Sovereignty,
1839-1880. Chapel
Hill: University of North
Carolina Press, 1993.
McLoughlin, William G.
The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 1994.
McLoughlin, William G.
Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839. New
Haven: Yale University Press,
1984, republished Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1995.
Meredith, Howard L.
Bartley Milam: Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation. Muskogee: Indian University Press,
1985.
Mooney, James. Myths
of the Cherokees and Sacred Formulas in the Cherokees. Nashville:
Charles Elder, 1972.
Moulton, Gary. John
Ross: Cherokee Chief. Athens: University of Georgia
Press, 1978.
Moulton, Gary, ed. The
Papers of Chief John Ross, Vol. I & II. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1985.
Perdue, Theda. The
Cherokee. New
York: Chelsea House Publishers,
1989.
Ross, Mary Jane. The
Life and Times of Hon. William P. Ross.
Fort Smith, Arkansas: Weldon
& William Printers, 1893.
Sober, Nancy Hope. The
Intruders. Ponca
City: Cherokee Books, 1991.
Starr, Emmet. History
of the Cherokee Indians. Oklahoma
City: The Warden Co., 1921, republished Muskogee:
Hoffman Printing, 1984.
Strickland, Rennard.
Fire and the Spirits: Cherokee Law from Clan to Court. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1975.
Woodward, Grace Steele.
The Cherokees. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1963.
Five Civilized Tribes
Debo, Angie. And
Still the Waters Run: The Betrayal of the Five Civilized Tribes. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1972.
Foreman, Grant. Indian
Removal. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1953.
Foreman, Grant. The
Five Civilized Tribes. Norman: University of Oklahoma
Press, 1933, reprinted 1968.
General Indian History
Dale, Edward Everett and Jesse Lee Rader. Readings in Oklahoma History. Evanston, Illinois: Row,
Peterson and Company, 1930.
Debo, Angie. A
History of the Indian of the United
States. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1970.
Deloria, Vine Jr. American
Indian Policy in the Twentieth Century.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1988.
Drinnon, Richard. Facing
West. New
York: Meridian, 1980.
Hudson, Charles. The
Southeastern Indians. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press,
1976.
Strickland, Rennard.
The Indians in Oklahoma. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1980.
Vanderwerth, W.C., ed.
Indian Oratory. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1971.
Waldman, Carl. Atlas
of the North American Indian. New
York: Facts on File Publications,
1985.
Waldman, Carl. Encyclopedia
of Native American Tribes. New
York: Facts on File Publications,
1988.
Civil War in Indian Territory
Cunningham, Frank. General
Stand Watie’s Confederate Indians.
San Antonio: The
Naylor Company, 1959.
Dale, Edward Everett and Gaston Litton. Cherokee Cavaliers. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
1939.
Edwards, Whit. The
Prairie Was on Fire: Eyewitness Accounts of the Civil War in Indian
Territory. Oklahoma
City: Oklahoma
Historical Society, 2001.
Fischer, Leroy H., ed.
The Civil War Era in Indian
Territory. Los
Angeles: Lorrin L. Morrison, 1974.
Franks, Kenny A. Stand
Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation. Memphis: Mempis State University Press,
1979.
Gaines, W. Craig.
The Confederate Cherokees: John Drew’s Regiment of Mounted Rifles. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press,
1989.
Knight, Wilfred. Red
Fox: Brigadier General Stand Watie’s Civil War Years in Indian Territory,
2d ed. Spokane: Arthur
H. Clark Company, 1989.
Tahlequah and Park Hill
Ballenger, T.L. Around
Tahlequah Council Fires. Oklahoma
City: Cherokee Publishing Company, Inc., 1945.
Duvall, Deborah L. The
Cherokee Nation and Tahlequah. Chicago: Arcadia
Publishing, 1999.
Duvall, Deborah L. An
Oral History of Tahlequah and the Cherokee Nation. Chicago: Arcadia
Publishing, 2000.
Foreman, Carolyn Thomas.
Park Hill. Muskogee: Park
Hill Press, 1949.
Mihesuah, Devon A. Cultivating the Rosebuds. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press,
1993.
Torkleson, Norine Allen.
Pioneers of Park Hill.
Tahlequah: Heritage Printing, 1985.
West, C.W. Tahlequah
and the Cherokee Nation. Muskogee:
Muskogee Publishing Company.
Children/Young Adults
Glassman, Bruce. Wilma
Mankiller: Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
Blackbirch Press, 1992.
Green, Rayna, ed. Women
in American Indian Society. New
York: Chelsea House, 1992.
Keith, Harold. Rifles
for Watie. New
York: Thomas Y. Cromwell Company,
1957.
Lowe, Felix C. John
Ross. Austin:
Raintree Streck-Vaughn Publishers, 1993.
Scheer, George F. Cherokee
Animal Tales. Tulsa:
Council Oaks Books, 1968.
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