Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842

Suggested Readings

  • Adams, Mikaëla M. Who Belongs? Race, Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 2016.

  • Axtell, James. Indians' New South: Cultural Change in the Colonial Southeast. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1997.

  • Berger, Thomas R. Long and Terrible Shadow: White Values, Native Rights in the Americas, 1492-1992. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1992, c1991.

  • Bergeron, Paul H., Paths of the Past: Tennessee, 1770-1970. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1979.

  • Brown, John P. Old Frontiers: The Story of the Cherokee Indians from Earliest Times to the Date of Their Removal to the West. Kingsport, Tennessee: Southern Publishers, Inc., 1938.

  • Cable, John S. Megadrought in the Carolinas: The Archaeology of Mississippian Collapse, Abandonment, and Coalescence. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2020.

  • Calloway, Colin G, ed. World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America. Boston: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

  • ______. The Indian World of George Washington: the First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

  • Carson, James Taylor. Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999.

  • Caughey, John Walton. McGillivray of the Creeks. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1938.

  • Champagne, Duane. Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments Among the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, and the Creek. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1992.

  • Chapman, Jefferson. Tellico Archaeology : 12,000 Years of Native American History. [Norris, Tenn.]: Tennessee Valley Authority; Knoxville, Tenn.: Distributed by the University of Tennessee Press, 1994.

  • Churchill, Ward. Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and the Denial of the Americas, 1492 to the Present. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1997.

  • Conley, Robert J. The Cherokee Nation: A History. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

  • Debo, Angie. The Road to Disappearance. Norman: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1941.

  • DeJong, David H. The Commissioners of Indian Affairs: The United States Indian Office and the Making of Federal Indian Policy, 1824 to 2017. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2020.

  • Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979. Compiled by: Vine Deloria, Jr. and Raymond J. DeMallie. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999.

  • Dowd, Gregory Evans. Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.

  • Dunn, John M. The Relocation of the Native American Indian. Detroit: Lucent Books, 2006.

  • Finger, John. Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

  • Finger, John. The Eastern Band of Cherokees 1819-1900. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

  • Foreman, Grant. Sequoyah. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970, c1938.

  • Freeman, Michael. Native American History of Savannah. Charleston, SC: The History Press, 2018.

  • Indian Slavery in Colonial America. Edited by Alan Gallay. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

  • Garrison, Tim Alan. The Legal Ideology of Removal: The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations. Athens & London: The University of Georgia Press, 2002.

  • _________ and Greg O’Brien. The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2017.

  • Godbold, E. Stanly, Jr. and Mattie U. Russell. Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: The Life of William Holland Thomas. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1990.

  • Griffith, Benjamin W. McIntosh and Weatherford, Creek Indian Leaders. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1988.

  • Harless, Richard G. George Washington and Native Americans: “Learn our arts and ways of life”. Fairfax, V.A.: George Mason University Press, 2018.

  • Harvey, Karen D. Indian Country: Teacher's Guide. Golden, Colorado: North American Press, 1994.

  • Harvey, Karen D. and Lisa D. Harjo. Indian Country: A History of Native People in America. Golden, Colorado: North American Press, 1994.

  • Harvey, Karen D., Lisa D. Harjo and Jane K, Jackson. Teaching about Native Americans. Bulletin no. 84. Washington, D.C.: National Council for the Social Studies, c1990.

  • Harvey, Karen D. with Lisa D. Harjo and Lynda Welborn. How to Teach about American Indians: A Guide for the School Library Media Specialist. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1995.

  • Hawkins, Benjamin. Combination of A Sketch of the Creek Country, in the Years 1798 and 1799; and, Letters of Benjamin Hawkins 1796-1806. Spartanburg, S.C., Reprint Co., 1974.

  • Hirschfelder, Arlene, ed. Native Heritage: Personal Accounts by American Indians, 1790 to the Present. New York: Macmillan, 1995.

  • Hoxie, Frederick E., Ronald Hoffman and Peter J. Albert. Native Americans and the Early Republic. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999.

  • Hudson, Charles M., ed. Ethnology of the Southeastern Indians: A Source Book. New York: Garland Publishing, 1985.

  • ---. The Southeastern Indians. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.

  • Johansen, Bruce E. The Native Peoples of North America: A History. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005.

  • King, Duane H. ed. The Cherokee Indian Nation: A Troubled History. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1979.

  • LaDuke, Winona. All our Relations: Native Struggles for Land and Life. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 1999.

  • Malone, Henry Thompson. Cherokees of the Old South: A People in Transition. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1956.

  • Malone, James H. The Chickasaw Nation. Louisville, Ky., J. P. Morton & Co., Inc., 1922.

  • Marsico, Katie. The Trail of Tears: the Tragedy of the American Indians. New York: Marshall Cavendish Benchmark, 2010.

  • Martin, Joel W. Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees' Struggle For A New World. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.

  • Martini, Don. Southeastern Indian Notebook: A Biographical and Genealogical Guide to the Five Civilized Tribes, 1685-1865. Ripley, Mississippi: Ripley Printing Company, 1986.

  • McCarthy, Kevin. Native Americans in Florida. Sarasota, F.L.: Pineapple Press, 1999.

  • McLoughlin, William G. Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1986.

  • ---. The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870: Essays on Acculturation and Cultural Persistence. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1994.

  • Moulton, Gary E. John Ross, Cherokee Chief. Athens, G.A.: The University of Georgia Press, 1978.

  • ---. "'Voyage to the Arkansas,' New Letters of John Ross." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 35 (1976): 46-50.

  • Nabokov, Peter, ed. Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000. NY: Penguin, 1999.

  • Native Americans: A Portrait: The Art and Travels of Charles Bird King, George Catlin, and Karl Bodmer. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1997.

  • Oberg, Michael Leroy. Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1999.

  • Pappas, George D. The Literary and Legal Genealogy of Native American Dispossession: the Marshall Cases Trilogy. London: Routledge, 2016.

  • Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998.

  • Perdue, Theda, ed. Cherokee Editor, the Writings of Elias Boudinot. Athens : University of Georgia Press, 1996.

  • Perdue, Theda and Michael D. Green, eds. The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin's Press, 1995.

  • Porter, Kenneth W. Black Seminoles: History of A Freedom-seeking People. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.

  • Satz, Ronald N. Tennessee's Indian Peoples: From White Contact to Removal, 1540-1840. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1979.

  • Saunt, Claudio. New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

  • ________. Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.

  • Slapin, Beverly and Doris Seale, eds. Through Indian Eyes: The Native Experience in Books for Children. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1992.

  • Smith, Page. Tragic Encounters: the People’s History of Native Americans. Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2015.

  • Smithers, Gregory D. Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 2019.

  • Strickland, Rennard. Fire and the Spirits: Cherokee Law from Clan to Court. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1975.

  • Smith, Page. Tragic Encounters: The People’s History of Native Americans. Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2018.

  • Swann, Brian and Arnold Krupat, eds. I Tell You Now: Autobiographical Essays by Native American Writers. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1987.

  • Swanton, John R. Myths and Tales of the Southeastern Indians. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995.

  • Szasz, Margaret Connell. Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

  • Timberlake, Lieut. Henry. Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake 1756-1765. Annotated by Samuel Cole Williams. LL.D. Marietta, GA: Continental Book Company 1948.

  • Wallace, Anthony F. C. The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.

  • Waters, Frank. Brave Are My People: Indian Heroes Not Forgotten. Santa Fe: Clear Light Publishers, 1993.

  • Weisman, Brent Richards. Unconquered People: Florida's Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1999.

  • Wells, Mary Ann. Searching for Red Eagle. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998.

  • Wilkins, Thurman. Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.