Tag: Cherokees

  • Do You Have a Cherokee in Your Family Tree? History News Network George Mason University 2015-10-18 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University Gregory D. Smithers is an Associate Professor of History at Virginia Commonwealth University and the author of The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (Yale…

  • The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity Yale University Press 2015-09-29 368 pages 17 b/w illustrations 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth ISBN: 9780300169607 Gregory D. Smithers, Associate Professor of History Virginia Commonwealth University The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than…

  • John Rollin Ridge’s Joaquín Murieta: Sensation, Hispanicism, and Cosmopolitanism Western American Literature Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2015 pages 321-349 DOI: 10.1353/wal.2015.0008 John C. Havard, Assistant Professor Department of English and Philosophy Auburn University, Montgomery, Alabama The mixed-race Cherokee poet, journalist, and novelist John Rollin Ridge’s The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta, the Celebrated…