The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819–1840 (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0806127201
ISBN 13
9780806127200
Category
Nonfiction
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Publication Year
1995
Publisher
Pages
192
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. - from Amzon
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