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The Cherokee Nation
The Cherokee Nation is one of the largest and most important of all the American Indian tribes. The first history of the Cherokees to appear in over four decades, this is also the first to be endorsed by the tribe and the first to be written by a Cherokee. Robert Conley begins his survey with Cherokee origin myths and legends. He then explores their relations with neighboring Indian groups and European missionaries and settlers. He traces their forced migrations west, relates their participations on both sides of the Civil War and the wars of the twentieth century, and concludes with an examination of Cherokee life today. Conley provides analyses for general readers of all ages to learn the significance of tribal lore and Cherokee tribal law. Following the history is a listing of the Principal Chiefs of the Cherokees with a brief biography of each and separate listings of the chiefs of the Eastern Cherokees and the Western Cherokees. For those who want to know more about Cherokee heritage and history, Conley offers additional reading lists at the end of each chapter.
The Long Way Home
In 16th Century Florida, an Indian holy man by the name of Deadwood Lighter is captured by the Spaniards, sold into slavery and taken to Cuba. Years later his master joins De Soto's expedition to Florida and Lighter accompanies him. He escapes and rejoins his people, but finds they are not his people any more, time having wrought its changes. By the author of The Way South.
The Dark Island
A Spur Award-winning title. Young Asquanti is the son of an escaped Indian slave and a Spaniard. When he hears of the atrocities committed by the Spanish invaders he ventures off on a painful and dangerous journey of discovery that leads him to a confrontation with his heritage. Robert J. Conley is noted for his accurate depiction of the old West, focusing on the history, tradition, and folklore of the Cherokee people.
Go-Ahead Rider
When recent Harvard graduate George Tanner returns home to Tahlequah in the Cherokee nation, he finds the town bustling and accommodations scarce. The council is in session and everyone is in town. Captain Go-Ahead Rider, the district sheriff, offers Tanner immediate employment as a deputy. Rider senses trouble as some key issues come up for vote before the Council. The big issue—and the most controversial one—is whether the railroad should be allowed to come into town. Mix Hail, the swing vote on the issue, suddenly disappears, and Tanner finds himself smack in the middle of big-money politics and his own nation’s concerns. As the two lawmen sort through a pile of blackmail, revenge, and bootlegging, they uncover a nasty plot by some of the town’s leading citizens. Tanner learns how to be a lawman, while at the same time experiencing the joy of being home, in his own land, with his own people, speaking his own language.
A Cold Hard Trail
The devil’s on my tail, and he’s wearing a badge. Arrested for a robbery I didn’t commit, I broke out of jail and took it on the lam... The Fosterville sheriff’s bagged a few outlaws. The trouble is, Kid Parmlee, his buddy Zeb, and his Paw are dead ringers for bandits who took a stagecoach and made off with a fortune in gold. First step for the Kid and his partners is to make a fast getaway before they get hanged. On the run—and trapped between a trigger-happy lawman and a trio of hard-core desperadoes—the Kid finds himself outnumbered and outgunned. All he has now is raw nerve and blind rage to clear his name and escape the cruel plains alive. In the next book in the Texas Outlaw series, A Cold Hard Trail, Spur Award-winning author Robert Conley has crafted Kid Parmlee, a fearless flesh-and-blood adventurer who lives and breathes the West as it really was. “Robert Conley spins a fast-action tall tale salted with Western humor.”—Elmer Kelton on Fugitive’s Trail
Plastic Indian
“So what does it mean to be a Cherokee?” asks Cherokee author Robert J. Conley at the start of this delightful collection of his writings. Throughout his prolific career, Conley used his art to explore Cherokee identity and experience. With his passing in 2014, Native American literature—and American literature in general—lost a major voice. Fortunately, this posthumous publication, edited by the author’s wife, Evelyn L. Conley, offers readers the opportunity to appreciate anew the blend of humor, candor, and creativity that makes his work so exceptional. Best known as a novelist, especially for his beloved Real People series, Conley was also a masterful writer of short stories, es...
The Way of the Priest
Based on Cherokee legends, this vivid historical novel is a mesmerizing tale of power, sacrifice and revolt. Set in the days before the Europeans' arrival in America, it tells of the Cherokee people's suffering from drought. Unable to stop the catastrophe, their priests are more concerned with preserving their own power.
The Peace Chief
A young Indian's rise to a high position in the Cherokee nation. He is Young Puppy and through his eyes is seen a war between, on the one side the Cherokee allied with the French, and on the other the Indian slave-catchers working for the Spanish. By the author of War Woman.
Cherokee Medicine Man
A modern medicine man portrayed through the words of the people he has helped Robert J. Conley did not set out to chronicle the life of Cherokee medicine man John Little Bear. Instead, the medicine man came to him. Little Bear asked Conley to write down his story, to reveal to the world “what Indian medicine is really about.” For Little Bear, as for the Cherokee ancestors who brought their traditions over the Trail of Tears to Indian Territory, the medicine is about helping people. Visitors from neighboring states and Mexico come to him, each one seeking help for a different kind of problem. Each seeker’s story is presented here exactly as it was told to Conley. Little Bear has cured problems involving health, relationships, and money by uncovering the source of the problem rather than simply treating the symptoms. Whereas mainstream medicine and counseling have failed his patients, Little Bear’s healing practices have proven beneficial time and again.
The Witch of Goingsnake and Other Stories
These stories, based on Cherokee history, folklore, and experience, reflect the depth of historical experience, as well as the range of contemporary life and values of this enduring Native American people
