When James Mooney lived with and studied the Cherokee between
1887 and 1900, they were the largest and most important Indian
tribe in the United States. His dispassionate account of their
history from the time of their first contact with whites until the
end of the nineteenth century is more than a sequence of battles
won and lost, treaties signed and broken, towns destroyed and
people massacred. There is humanity along with inhumanity in the
relations between the Cherokee and other groups, Indian and
non-Indian; there is fortitude and persistence balanced with
disillusionment and frustration. In these respects, the history of
the Cherokee epitomizes the experience of most Native Americans.
The Cherokee Nation ceased to exist as a political entity seven
years after the initial study was done, when Oklahoma became a
state.
In the introduction to the original publication of this history
in 1900, James Mooney commented that "there is change indeed in
dress and outward seeming, but the heart of the Indian is still his
own." This history was originally included in the 19th Annual
Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology.
It was republished under the auspices of the National
Anthropological Archives of the Smithsonian Museum of Natural
History, at the request of the Governing Body of the Cherokee
Nation, in 1975, with new introductory material and supplementary
illustrations from the archives. The volume has a foreword from
W.W. Keeler, chief of the Cherokee Nation, and an introduction by
Richard Mack Bettis, president of the Tulsa Tsa-La-Gi-Ya Cherokee
Community.
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