Cherokee Native

Conducting research for her weekly history column, Jinx, a free-spirited Muscogee (Creek) historian, travels to Hold House, a Georgia plantation originally owned by Cherokee chief James Hold, to uncover the mystery of what happened to a tribal member who stayed behind after Indian removal, when Native Americans were forcibly displaced from their ancestral homelands in the nineteenth century.

Sam Bass is tall and lanky, loves old western movies, wears cowboy boots, and drives a beat-up Jeep Wrangler. He's a hot-shot pilot running a shoestring charter business on remote Ocracoke Island, and he has a gorgeous girlfriend, Valerie, a Cherokee widow with a young son.When Sam risks everything to help rescue a couple lost at sea in a storm, he gets publicity he definitely doesn't need.The Cowboy, as he's known to certain dangerous people, has been located and a hit team is dispatched to take care of unfinished business. Sam, Valerie, and her son are suddenly the focus of evil. Their ...

A baby, a black hired hand, a bay horse, a gun, and a neighbor have all gone missing in the same corner of the Cherokee Nation West. Cherokee America Singer, known as Check, is none too pleased with these developments. As a wealthy farmer, the mother of five boys, and the matriarch of her family, she's accustomed to wielding authority. And she's determined to find out what's going on.

Most claims of Native American ancestry rest on the mother's ethnicity. This can be verified by a DNA test determining what type of mitochondrial DNA she passed to you. A hundred participants in DNA Consultants multi-phase Cherokee DNA Study did just that. What they had in common is they were previously rejected - by commercial firms, genealogy groups, government agencies and tribes. Their mitochondrial DNA was not classified as Native American. These are the "anomalous" Cherokee.

Most histories of the Cherokee nation focus on its encounters with Europeans, its conflicts with the U.S. government, and its expulsion from its lands during the Trail of Tears. This work, however, traces the origins of the Cherokee people to the third century B.C.E. and follows their migrations through the Americas to their homeland in the lower Appalachian Mountains.

Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men - President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross - who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. Jacksonland is their story.

ATENCIÓN Lectores: Este libro ha sido reelaborado y publicado como un Libro NUEVO (CAÍDO) en una Serie NUEVA (Serie Redención). ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Todos tenemos dos vidas. La segunda vida de Jimmy-Mack comenzó en el momento en que se dio cuenta de que solo tenía una.En las desoladas montañas de Carolina del Norte, el nuevo amor de Mack por un indígena Cherokee expone un secreto tribal y un cementerio indígena que guarda un antiguo tesoro vikingo. El tesoro está encapsulado en un misterio sobrenatural tan ...

The year is 1825, and a small Native American village has lost many of its people and bravest warriors to a pack of Lofa; huge beasts humanoid in shape but covered with coarse hair. The creatures are taller than any normal man and fiercer than even the wildest animal. Rather than leave the land of their ancestors, the tribe chooses to stay and fight the beasts. But they're losing the war, and perhaps more critically, they're almost without hope. The small community grasps for anything to help them survive. There is a warrior on the frontier known as Orenda. He's already legendary across the...

This unique audiobook introduces the listeners to the seven Cherokee clans, found in no other American Indian tribe. They are Wolf (Ani-Wahiya), Bird (Ani-Tsiskwa), Deer (Ani-Kawi), Twister (Ani-Gilohi), Wild Potato (Ani-Gotegewi), Panther (Ani-Sahoni) and Paint (Ani-Wodi). In each section of notes appear the etymology of the Cherokee name, synonyms and related clans, the clan's in-born strengths and character, mitochondrial DNA types, symbols and iconography, famous people, ceremonies, art and monuments.

NOMINATED FOR A PULITZER PRIZE NUMBER ONE NEW RELEASE AND BESTSELLER IN NATIVE AMERICAN SPIRITUALITY October 2024:In New York City, Mark, born dirt-poor on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, works for GLUE, the secret organization that controls the world. Mark has perfected an ancient weapon that never misses its human target and the kills always leave inspectors mystified. If Mark accepts the latest assignment from GLUE, for ten million dollars, it will change drastically the future of America, all set against a backdrop of rumors of ravens and Medicine Carriers with people in ...

One of the darkest and cruelest chapters in the history of the United States occurred when the nation’s young government decided to remove the native peoples from their lands in the name of profit. Having helped settlers for hundreds of years, five Native American tribes found it increasingly more difficult to relate to, and trust, the country that had once acted as their allies. The native peoples had fought alongside the Americans to gain freedom from England, the nation that the colonists deemed oppressive and unfair.

Blood Moon is the story of the century-long blood feud between two rival Cherokee chiefs from the early years of the United States through the infamous Trail of Tears and into the Civil War. While little remembered today, their mutual hatred shaped the tragic history of the tribe far more than anyone, even the reviled President Andrew Jackson, ever did.

The Cherokee are among the native tribes of the United States' Southeastern Woodlands. They resided in communities along river valleys in what's now southwestern North Carolina, southeastern Tennessee, the limits of western South Carolina, northern Georgia, and northeastern Alabama just before the 18th century. Cherokee belongs to the Iroquoian language family. One oral legend tells of the people moving south in age-old times from the Great Lakes area, where other Iroquoian-speaking tribes were based, according to James Mooney, an early American ethnographer.

In Potshot, Nevada, Thea MacTavish strives to save her community from a man whose history compels him to change all she holds most dear. Extortion, a prowling wolf, and family ties stress the single mother to the breaking point. Then Thea must allow into her home a prickly man who attacks everything most essential to her peace of mind. Half Cherokee and victim of both wildfire and prejudice, Bramden Hayes battles his ghosts with science. He plans to make Potshot fireproof and personal attachments have no place on his agenda. Bram confronts Thea's reluctance to board him, then forces the ...

John Greystone is a twenty year old who lands a summer job as a wildfire spotter in Sequoia National Park. A helicopter pilot drops him off on a remote mountain top with a promise to return an hour later with supplies. The next day the pilot has not returned and John is out of water.

From the "Trail of Tears" to Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the narrative of American history is incomplete without the inclusion of the Native Americans that lived on the continent before European settlers arrived in the 16th and 17th centuries. Since the first contact between natives and settlers, tribes like the Sioux, Cherokee, and Navajo have both fascinated and perplexed outsiders with their history, language, and culture.

Cherokee people have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for thousands of years. During all this time, they have told stories to each other to explain how things came to be, to pass on lessons about life, and to describe the mountains, animals, plants, and spirits around them. The Origin of the Milky Way and Other Living Stories of the Cherokee collects 26 stories that are great for kids and are still being told by storytellers today.

It’s 1974 in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and 15-year-old Justine grows up in a family of tough, complicated, and loyal women, presided over by her mother, Lula, and Granny. After Justine’s father abandoned the family, Lula became a devout member of the Holiness Church - a community that Justine at times finds stifling and terrifying. But Justine does her best as a devoted daughter, until an act of violence sends her on a different path forever.

With so many women, what was a bachelor to do?More was going on in the Revolutionary War / War of Independence than just the battles recorded in history books. Life between the white settlers, Cherokee, and soldiers got very complicated, especially when Hessian mercenaries with their own selfish agendas, came into the action. Two beautiful white women, living with their Cherokee husbands and children, are caught in the middle of lies, greed, and gunfire. Will the handsome and clever trapper known as Little Bear save the day? Get ready to escape to 18th century North Carolina, but bring your...

Life was hard in the wilderness of 18th century America. But there was always hope. Three strangers from diverse times and cultures overcome adversity and come together for survival, finding new versions of family and happiness in this gritty and sometimes humorous time travel story. Fed up with her domineering brother, Rachel and her infant son leave to find happiness with the Cherokee. Two more white folks unexpectedly join her new clan, causing confusion but also providing a novel solution to the one of tribe’s biggest problems: no food. 20th century-born Lord Martin Melbourne had ...