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The Cherokees Russell Thornton

The Cherokees By Russell Thornton

The Cherokees by Russell Thornton


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Offers a study of an American Indian group showing the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. This book discusses their origins, their first contact with Europeans, and, their fluctuation in population during the eighteenth century.

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The Cherokees: A Population History by Russell Thornton

The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. He discusses their mysterious origins, their first contact with Europeans (prob-ably in 1540), and their fluctuation in population during the eighteenth century, when the Old World brought them smallpox. The toll taken by massive relocations in the following century, most notably the removal of the Cherokees from the Southeast to In-dian Territory, and by warfare, predating the American Revolution and including the Civil War, also enters into Thornton's calculations. He goes on to measure the resurgence of the Cherokees in the twentieth century, focusing on such population centers as North Carolina, Oklahoma, and California.

About Russell Thornton

Russell Thornton, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is the author of American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History since 1492 (1987).

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CIN0803294107G
9780803294103
0803294107
The Cherokees: A Population History by Russell Thornton
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Nebraska Press
19920201
239
N/A
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