Please find some of the books that can help you discover the history of the Cherokee Nation, General History, Gender Studies, and eclectic books that I have enjoyed.  They are available through Amazon.com.  Just click on the book cover or the title link and it will take you directly to that book page at Amazon.  I have also included books that were used for my research in this list.  Those not available at Amazon will not have links.  Wado.

After the Trail of Tears : The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880 by William G. McLoughlin

Beginning Cherokee by Ruth Bradley Holmes, Betty Sharp Smith   This is a great book for learning Cherokee as it is spoken in Oklahoma today.

James Mooney's History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees :
Containing the Full Texts of Myths of the Cherokee (1900 and the Sacred
 Formula) by James Mooney  This is probably the best single source for early ethnographic material on the Cherokee Nation.  It is certainly Eurocentric in its views but does give ample room to "read between the lines" into Cherokee culture.
The Cherokee People : The Story of the Cherokees from Earliest Origins to
Contemporary Times by Thomas E. Mails   Another good book that gathers lots of information in one place.  It does have its limitations, however, because it tries to cover too great a timespan.

Trail of Tears : The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation by John Ehle.  This text has been used and quoted extensively about pre-removal and removal to Oklahoma.

Aniyunwiya/Real Human Beings : An Anthology of Contemporary Cherokee Prose - Joseph Bruchac(Editor).

Cherokee Dance and Drama (Civilization of the American Indian)
 by Frank G. Speck, Leonard Broom (Contributor).  This book illustrates how traditions continue when a culture is isolated as opposed to the culture that was so heavily influenced by other First Nation peoples in Oklahoma.

The Brainerd Journal : A Mission to the Cherokees, 1817-1823 (Indians of the
Southeast Series) by Joyce B. Phillips (Editor), Paul Gary Phillips (Editor), Philip H., Jr. Viles.

Memoir of Catharine Brown: A Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation. Third Edition; Boston, Crocker and Brewster NY, Johnathan Leavitt, 1828. (WRHS) by Rufus Anderson A.M.

Rebuilding the Christian Commonwealth: New England Congregationalists & Foreign Missions, 1800-1830.  The University Press of Kentucky, 1976 by John A. Andrew III.

The Cherokee (Indians of North America Series) by Theda Perdue, Theda Perdue, Frank W. Porter (Introduction).  Theda Perdue is one of the contemporary leading authorities on Cherokee culture.

Cherokee Cavaliers : Forty Years of Cherokee History As Told in the
Correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot Family (The Civilization of the
America) by Edward Everett Dale, Gaston Litton (Contributor), James W. Parins.  Excellent primary source material for alternative views on the Civil War.

The Cherokee Removal : A Brief History With Documents (Bedford Book in
History and Culture) by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green (Editor)

Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic (Princeton Paperbacks)
by William G. McLoughlin

Cherokee Women : Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835 (Indians of the
Southeast) by Theda Perdue

Cultivating the Rosebuds : The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female
Seminary, 1851-1909 by Devon A. Miheshuah, Devon A. Mihesuah

Catharine Brown: A Converted Cherokee.  Founded On Fact.; New Haven, CT. S. Converse Printer. 1819. (CPL)
Cherokee Messenger (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol 12)
                      by Althea Bass, William L. Anderson
"The Cherokee Nation: Mirror of the Republic;" Major Problems in American History; Albert Hurtado and Peter Iverson. D. C. Heath and Company, Lexington Mass. 1994. Mary Young

Directory of Cleveland published 1837-1838 (CSU)

Abel, Annie Heloise, Ph.D.
The American Indian as Slaveholder and Secessionist  Republished 1978.  Scholarly Press, Inc. St. Claire Sores, MI.  Originally published by The Arthur H. Clark Company Cleveland: 1919.

Anderson, William L., ed.
Cherokee Removal Before and After The University of Georgia Press, Athens.  1991.
 Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839 by William G. McLoughlin, William L. Anderson

From Revivals to Removal:  Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of America by  John A. Anderson III
 

Night of the Cruel Moon: Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears Facts on File, Inc. NY 1996. Hoig, Stanley

The Cherokees and Their Chiefs : In the Wake of Empire by Stanley W. Hoig, Stan Hoig

Nash, Gary
Red, White, & Black: The Peoples of Early North America Third Edition. Prentice Hall Publishers, Englewood Cliffs, NJ .

Perdue, Theda
Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540—1866 The University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville.  1979.

The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents Theda Perdue and Michael Green Eds.

Dowd, Gregory Frontier
“The Panic of 1751:  The Significance of Rumors of the South Carolina-Cherokee Frontier”  The William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, Vol. LIII, No. 3, July 1996.

Dunaway, Wilma
“Incorporation as an Interactive Process:  Cherokee Resistant to Expansion of the World-System, 1560-1763.”  Sociological Inquiry, Vol. 66, No. 4, November 1996.

McLoughlin, William G. and Walter Conser Jr.
“Cherokee Responses to the Debate over  Indian Origins, 1760-1860.”  American Quarterly V. 41 June 1989.

Thornton, Russell
“Boundary Dissolution and Revitalization Movements: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Cherokees”  Ethnohistory 40:3 (Summer 1993).
“Cherokee Population Losses During the Train of Tears: A New Perspective and a New Estimate” Ethnohistory 31(4):  (1984)

Wishart, David
“Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal”  The Journal of Economic History vol. 55, No. 1 (Mar. 1995).
 
 

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