People of Kituwah - The Old Ways of the Eastern Cherokees

List of contents

Contents

Preface 

Introduction 

PART ONE. BEFORE CONTACT 

1. ᏗᏓᎴᏂᏍᎬ ᎤᏂᏃᎮᏓ: Eastern Cherokee Creation and Subsistence Narratives 
2. ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ ᏍᎦᏚᎩ: Cherokee Community 
3. ᎤᎵᏍᎨᏗ ᎢᏳᎾᏛᏁᏘ: Cherokee Ceremonial Life 
4. ᏅᏬᏘ: Cherokee Medicine 

PART TWO. AFTER CONTACT 

5. The Contact Era: 1540–1760 
6. Contact, Colonialism, and Christianity: 1725–1799 
7. Christian Missions and the Ghost Dance: 1799–1815 
8. Missionaries and Medicine Men: 1815–1828 
9. Cherokees, Christianity, and Myth: 1818–1830 
10. Christianity and Cherokee Removal: 1830–1838 
11. Cherokee Isolation, the Civil War, and Traditional Religion: 1839–1900 
12. Cherokee Traditions in the Twentieth Century 

Epilogue 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index
 

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin E. Frey, John D. Loftin, John D. Frey Loftin
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2024
• EAN: 9780520400320
• ISBN: 978-0-520-40032-0
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Indigenous Peoples, Relating to Native American people, Tribal religions, Indigenous, ethnic and folk religions and spiritual beliefs, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Native American Studies, RELIGION / Folk & Tribal