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Cherokee Civil Warrior - Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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Cherokee Civil Warrior - Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty (Hardcover)
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For the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest
between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet another battle in
the larger struggle against multiple white governments for land and
tribal sovereignty. Cherokee Civil Warrior tells the story of Chief
John Ross as he led the tribe in this struggle. The son of a
Scottish father and mixed-blood Indian mother, John Ross served the
Cherokee Nation in a public capacity for nearly fifty years,
thirty-eight as its constitutionally elected principal chief.
Historian W. Dale Weeks describes Ross's efforts to protect the
tribe's interests amid systematic attacks on indigenous culture
throughout the nineteenth century, from the forced removal policies
of the 1830s to the exigencies of the Civil War era. At the outset
of the Civil War, Ross called for all Cherokees, slaveholding and
nonslaveholding, to remain neutral in a war they did not support-a
position that became untenable when the United States withdrew its
forces from Indian Territory. The vacated forts were quickly
occupied by Confederate troops, who pressured the Cherokees to
align with the South. Viewed from the Cherokee perspective, as
Weeks does in this book, these events can be seen in their proper
context, as part of the history of U.S. "Indian policy," failed
foreign relations, and the Anglo-American conquest of the American
West. This approach also clarifies President Abraham Lincoln's
acknowledgment of the federal government's abrogation of its treaty
obligation and his commitment to restoring political relations with
the Cherokees-a commitment abruptly ended when his successor Andrew
Johnson instead sought to punish the Cherokees for their perceived
disloyalty. Centering a Native point of view, this book recasts and
expands what we know about John Ross, the Cherokee Nation, its
commitment to maintaining its sovereignty, and the Civil War era in
Indian Territory. Weeks also provides historical context for later
developments, from the events of Little Bighorn and Wounded Knee to
the struggle over tribal citizenship between the Cherokees and the
descendants of their former slaves.
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