Bibliography

To learn more about the historic Trail of Tears, choose books and articles from this general bibliography of sources:

• Anonymous. "Ross Directed Emigration Detachments." Journal of Cherokee Studies 2 (Summer 1978): 186-87.
• Buttrick, Daniel S. 1838-39 Diary. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
• Cannon, B. B. "An Overland Journey to the West (October-December 1837)." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer 1978): 166-73.
• Chang, David. The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
• Deas, Lt. Edward. "Emigrating to the West by Boat (April-May 1838)." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer 1978): 158-63.

• Forbes, Jack D. Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

• Foreman, Grant. Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932.
• _______. The Five Civilized Tribes: A Brief History and a Century of Progress. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1932.

• Halliburton, Rudi. “Origins of Black Slavery Among the Cherokees.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 52 (Winter 1974): 483-96.

• _______. Red Over Black: Black Slavery Among the Cherokees. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1977.

• Henegar, H. B. "Recollections of the Cherokee Removal." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer 1978): 177-79.
• Hudson, Charles. The Southeastern Indians. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1976.
• King, Duane H., and E. Raymond Evans, Editors. "The Trail of Tears: Primary Documents of the Cherokee Removal." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer 1978): 131-90.
• King, Duane H. Cherokee Heritage: Official Guidebook to the Museum of the Cherokee Indian. Cherokee, NC: Cherokee Communications, 1988.

• Krauthamer, Barbara. Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013.

• Lightfoot, B. B. "The Cherokee Emigrants in Missouri, 1837-1839." Missouri Historical Review 56 (January 1962): 156-67.

• Littlefield, Daniel. The Cherokee Freedmen: From Emancipation to American Citizenship. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1979.

• Miles, Tiya. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.

• _______. The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

• Morrow, W. I. I. 1839 Diary. Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri, Columbia.
• Mooney, James. Historical Sketch of the Cherokee. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1975.
• Moulton, Gary E. John Ross: Cherokee Chief. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978.

• Naylor, Celia E. African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008.

• Perdue, Theda. The Cherokee. New York: Chelsea House Publishers. Prucha, 1989.

• _______. Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1979.

• Prucha, F. P. "Andrew Jackson's Indian Removal Policy: A Reassessment." Journal of American History 56 (December 1969): 527-39.

• Saunt, Claudio. Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of the American Family. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

• Scott, Winfield. "If Not Rejoicing at Least in Comfort." Journal of Cherokee Studies 3 (Summer 1978): 138-42.

• Snyder, Christina. Slavery in Indian Country: The Changing Face of Captivity in Early America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012.

• Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians and Their Legends and Folk Lore. Oklahoma City: The Warden Company, 1921.

• Sturm, Circe. Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

• Thornton, Russell. "Cherokee Population Losses during the Trail of Tears: A New Perspective and a New Estimate." Ethnohistory 31 (Autumn 1984): 289-300.
• _____. The Cherokees: A Population History. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
• Wilkins, Thurman. Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
• Woodward, Grace Steele. The Cherokees. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963.

• Yarbrough, Fay. Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008.

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