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This is a Cherokee bibliography, a list of sources to explore for Cherokee history on Wikipedia. It was prompted by a discussion about the article linked to Second Cherokee War.

Books

Cherokee history

• Conley, Robert J. The Cherokee Nation: A History. University of New Mexico Press, 2005.
• Hoig, Stanley. The Cherokees and Their Chiefs: In the Wake of Empire. University of Arkansas Press, 1998. Google Books.
• McLoughlin, William G. Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic. Princeton University Press, 1992.
• Reid, John Phillip. A Law of Blood: The Primitive Law of the Cherokee Nation. Northern Illinois University Press, 2006.

Eighteenth century

• Goodwin, Gary C. Cherokees in Transition: A Study of Changing Culture and Environment Prior to 1775. University of Chicaho Department of Geography Research Paper, no. 181. U of Chicago, 1977.
• Hatley, Tom. The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution. Oxford University Press, 1993.

Anglo-Cherokee War (1756-63)

• Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. Vintage, 2000.
• Oliphant, John. Peace and war on the Anglo-Cherokee frontier, 1756-63. LSU Press, 2001. Google Books.

Cherokee War of 1776 (and after)

• O'Donnell, James H. III. The Cherokees of North Carolina in the American Revolution.
• Faulkner, Charles. Massacre at Cavett’s Station: Frontier Tennessee during the Cherokee Wars. University of Tennessee Press, 2013.
• Snapp, J. Russell. John Stuart and the Struggle for Empire on the Southern Frontier. LSU Press, 1996.

Eastern Nation after Removal

• Finger, John R. The Eastern Band of Cherokees, 1819-1900. U of Tennessee Press, 1984. Google Books.

Western Nation

• Minges, Patrick Neal. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society and the Defining of a People, 1855-1867. Routledge, 2004. Google Books.

Comparative history: Cherokees and others

• Adair, James. The History of the American Indians. London: Edward & Charles Dilly, 1775; reprint, ed., intro. & annotated by Kathryn E. Holland Braund, U of Ala. Press, 2005. This is a published primary source that contains much doubtful information, including argument for the supposed Jewish origin of American Indians; the recent edition's editorial apparatus makes it much more useful.
• Calloway, Colin. The American Revolution in Indian Country: Crisis and Diversity in Native American Communities. Cambridge U Press, 1995.
• Champagne, Duane. Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Government among the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, and the Creek. Stanford University Press, 1992.
• Cumfer, Cynthia. Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier. University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
• Dowd, Gregory Evans. A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745-1815. Johns Hopkins, 1992.
• Garrison, Tim Alan. The legal ideology of removal: the southern judiciary and the sovereignty of Native American nations. U of GA Press, 2009. Google Books.
• Grenier, John. The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
• Miller, David W. The Taking of American Indian Lands in the Southeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Forced Relocations, 1607-1840. McFarland, 2011. Google Books.
• O'Donnell, James H. III. Southern Indians and the American Revolution. University of Tennessee Press, 1973.
• Perdue, Theda. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700-1835. U of Nebraska Press, 1998. Google Books.
• Perdue, Theda. "Mixed-Blood" Indians: Racial Construction in the Early South. University of Georgia Press, 2003.

Ethnography

• Mooney, James. "The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees." Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-'86 (1891): 307-397. Biodiversity Library. Gutenberg (1902 reprint).
• Mooney, James. "Myths of the Cherokee." Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, 1897-198 no. 19, pt. 1 (1900): 3-576. Biodiversity Library. Gutenberg.

Mooney’s reports have been reprinted many times, together or separately.

Articles

Biography

• Evans, Raymond E. "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Ostenaco." Journal of Cherokee Studies 1.1 (1976): 41–54.
• Evans, Raymond E. "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Bob Benge." Journal of Cherokee Studies 1.2 (1976): 98-106.
• Evans, Raymond E. "Notable Persons in Cherokee History: Dragging Canoe." Journal of Cherokee Studies 2.2 (1977): 176-189.
• Kelly, James C. "Oconostota." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Fall 1979): 221-238.
• Litton, Gaston L. "The Principal Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation." Chronicles of Oklahoma 15.3 (September 1937): 253-270. Online.
• Pesantubbee, Michelene E. "Nancy Ward: American Patriot or Cherokee Nationalist?" American Indian Quarterly 38, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 177-206.

Cherokee history

Cherokee War of 1776

• Bender, Albert. "Dragging Canoe's War." Military History (January 2012): 68-75. (Use with caution; not peer reviewed.)
• Downes, Randolph C. "Cherokee-American Relations in the Upper Tennessee Valley, 1776-1791." East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 8 (1936): 35-53.
• Evans, Raymond E. "Was the Last Battle of the American Revolution Fought on Lookout Mountain?" Journal of Cherokee Studies 5.1 (1980): 30-40.

Comparative

• Carson, James Taylor. "'The obituary of nations' : Ethnic cleansing, memory, and the origins of the Old South." Southern Cultures 14.4 (Winter 2008): 6-31.
• Perdue, Theda. "Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South." Ethnohistory 51.4 (Fall 2004): 701-723.
• Perdue, Theda. "The Legacy of Indian Removal." Journal of Southern History 78.1 (Feb 2012): 3-36.

Looks at scattered Indian communities in the South after Removal, including the Eastern Cherokees; discusses their "removal from southern history."

Related topics

• Banker, Luke H. "A History of Fort Southwest Point, 1792-1807." The East Tennessee Historical Society's Publications 46 (1974): 19-36.
• Barksdale, Kevin. "The Spanish Conspiracy on the Trans-Appalachian Borderlands, 1786-1789." Journal of Appalachian Studies 13, no. 1/2 (Spring 2007): 96-123.

Published primary sources

• Filler, Louis & Allen Guttmann, eds. The Removal of the Cherokee Nation: Manifest Destiny or National Dishonor? D.C. Heath, 1962.

Anthology of writings by politicians and observers of the Cherokee Removal debate, including some 20th-century views. No Cherokee perspectives, unless you count that of adopted Cherokee David Crockett.

Works to avoid

In my opinion, these works should either be avoided or checked against other, more reliable sources. Some of them are historical fiction. Some are simply old and out of date.

• Ehle, John. Trail of Tears: The Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation. Anchor Books, 1997.

This entertaining historical novel has sowed confusion among readers with a sincere interest in Cherokee history. That's because the author has dotted his text with footnotes, and the publisher has labeled it "American history" rather than (what it really is) historical fiction. If this book leads you to an important fact, please follow Ehle's footnote to the source and use that source.