Description: In Cherokee Power, Kristofer Ray brings long-overdue clarity to this question by highlighting the role of the Overhill Cherokees in shaping imperial and Indigenous geopolitics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America.
Brief description:
Kristofer Ray is Visiting Scholar in the History Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of Middle Tennessee, 1775-1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier and coeditor of Understanding and Teaching Native American History.
Review Quotes: "A stunning book. Kristofer Ray brings together careful research and elegant prose to reveal the pivotal role that the Cherokees played in a changing world. Cherokee Power challenges our assumptions about a crucial period in North American history."--Gregory Smithers, author of Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America