For discussion

Why did the Cherokee adopt a policy of assimilation/accommodation with whites? What did the policy entail? How effective was it?

Why were they unable to prevent the Trail of Tears?

Readings

• Wm G. McLoughlin, After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees’ Struggle for Survival, 1839-1880
• Wm G. McLoughlin, Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic
• Wm McLooughlin & Walter H. Conser, The Cherokees and Christianity, 1794-1870
• John Finger, The Eastern Band of Cherokees, 1819-1900
• Theda Perdue, Nations Remembered: An Oral History of the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks and Seminoles in Oklahoma, 1865-1907
• Theda Perdue, Cherokee Women.
• Jack Gregory and Rennard Strickland, Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829-1833
• Theda Perdue, Michael D.Green, The Cherokee removal : a brief history with documents
• Theda Perdue Slavery and the evolution of Cherokee society, 1540-1866 [electronic resource accessible via the library webcat] .