Cherokee Civil Warrior – Chief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignt…

Cherokee Civil WarriorChief John Ross and the Struggle for Tribal Sovereignty\nAuthor(s): W. Dale Weeks\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press, United States\nImprint: University of Oklahoma Press\nISBN-13: 9780806194912, 978-0806194912\nSynopsis\nFor the Cherokee Nation, the Civil War was more than a contest between the Union and the Confederacy. It was yet another battle in the larger struggle against multiple white governments for land and tribal sovereignty. Cherokee Civil Warrior tells the story of Chief John Ross as he led the tribe in this struggle.\n\n The son of a Scottish father and mixed-blood Indian mother, John Ross served the Cherokee Nation in a public capacity for nearly fifty years, thirty-eight as its constitutionally elected principal chief. Historian W. Dale Weeks describes Rosss efforts to protect the tribes interests amid systematic attacks on indigenous culture throughout the nineteenth century, from the forced removal policies of the 1830s.