So far this is my updated thesis and claims for my final paper. I would appreciate some early feedback and maybe some suggestions about how to improve it. Indigenous Americans…
This week, I read an interesting article about how the memory of the Civil War developed in Native territories. The article “Lest We Remember” by historian Jeff Fortney explores how…
This week I read about an anti-war group in the Cherokee Nation called the Keetoowah Society. In previous sources I had read, historians believed the society grew out of the…
What I plan to write after this is how the Relationship between Chief Ross and Stand Watie adds another level of complexity to the story of race and the Civil…
The second part of the chapter “The General: The Western Cherokee and the Lost Cause” from Between Two Fires by Laurence Hauptman covers the battles and wartime struggles of the nation. Under…
This week, I explored more about the Cherokee’s direct involvement with the Civil War. From the book Between Two Fires: American Indians in the Civil War by Laurence Hauptman, I read a…
This week I was trying to research into Cherokees who were abolitionists. Instead, I came across an interesting article that covers Cherokee and Creek African slaves who attempted to escape…
This week I wanted to explore more into the race relations between White Americans, The Cherokee, and African slaves before the Civil War. After exploring the Cherokee Constitution, I was…
The Cherokee Constitution is the first primary source I have been able to find for my paper. Signed September 6th, 1839, the Cherokee Constitution was an agreement between factions of…
