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Our Fire Survives the Storm
Once the most powerful indigenous nation in the southeastern United States, the Cherokees survive and thrive as a people nearly two centuries after the Trail of Tears and a hundred years after the allotment of Indian Territory. In Our Fire Survives the Storm, Daniel Heath Justice traces the expression of Cherokee identity in that nation’s literary tradition. Through cycles of war and peace, resistance and assimilation, trauma and regeneration, Cherokees have long debated what it means to be Cherokee through protest writings, memoirs, fiction, and retellings of traditional stories. Justice employs the Chickamauga consciousness of resistance and Beloved Path of engagement—theoretical appro...
Multitribal Indians In Search of No Man's Land
During the American westward expansion, Chickamaugans, originally Cherokees, prioritized resistance to the U.S. government and Euro-American invaders. They signed treaties with Great Britain and Spain. Overlooked by scholars, it was the "diplomatic savvy" of Chickamaugan women and the support of their numerous allies, British loyalists, free persons of color, former slaves, and Native Americans from other nations, that made it possible for Chickamaugan resistance to last from 1775 to 1794. Carla Toney proves that, after the collapse of their resistance, many chose migration, not as individuals, but in migration clusters. She clearly elucidates the feudal patterns brought to the United States, the cultural fluidity of Indigenous nations, and migration as a form of resistance.
Starr's History of the Cherokee Indians
Emmet Starr's History is the classic account of the early Cherokees, their constitution, treaties with the federal government, land transactions, school system, migration and resettlement, committees, councils, and officials, religion, language, and culture, and a host of other topics. More than half the book is devoted to genealogies and biographies, of which therre are several hundred, giving information on births, marriages, and deaths over a period of several generations and naming thousands of related persons.
Cherokee Tragedy
Chronicles the rise of the Cherokee Nation and its rapid decline, focusing on the Ridge-Watie family and their experiences during the Cherokee removal.
The Indian Historian
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Our Solomon Nidiffer Clan
Solomon Nidiffer was born before 1791 in Tennessee. He had seven or eight children. He died between 1860-1870 in Arkansas. His son, Isaac, was born 18 July 1818 in Tennessee. He married Lucy Gertrude Arthur (1829-1886) in 1846. They had ten children. Isaac died in 1890 in Oklahoma. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Oklahoma, California and Washington.
