The Cherokees A Population History - Indians of the Southeast
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The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. He discusses their mysterious origins, their first contact with Europeans (prob-ably in 1540), and their fluctuation in population during the eighteenth century, when the Old World brought them smallpox. The toll taken by massive relocations in the following century, most notably the removal of the Cherokees from the Southeast to In-dian Territory, and by warfare, predating the American Revolution and including the Civil War, also enters into Thornton's calculations. He goes on to measure the resurgence of the Cherokees in the twentieth century, focusing on such population centers as North Carolina, Oklahoma, and California.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780803244160 |
Publisher: | Nebraska |
Imprint: | University of Nebraska Press |
Pub date: | 01 Oct 1990 |
DEWEY: | 305.8975 |
DEWEY edition: | 20 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 237 |
Weight: | 1134g |
Height: | 20mm |
Width: | 140mm |