"RECOMMENDED READING CONCERNING THE CHEROKEE CULTURE AND ITS PEOPLE"
{There are many book available for everyday reading but the best books for learning are usually the most popular and will be recommended by other readers. Here is a listing of many books. If you are the owner of any of them would you please email me. Tell me what you think of the book...its historical accuracy and genealogical data. I would like to post those comments.)
Roadside History of Oklahoma by Fugate
The Cherokee Nation and Tahlequah, Images of America by Deborah L. Duvall
Indian Leaders of Oklahoma by Jones/Holm
Oklahoma Renegades by Ken Butler
The Houston's of Tahlequah by Sue Ann Emerson
Cherokee Footprints by Rev. Charles O. Walker
The Buffalo Ridge Cherokee by Horace Rice
The American Indian as Slaveholder and Seccessionist by Annie Heloise Abel
Voices from the Trail of Tears by Vicki Rozema
Cherokee Voices, Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East by Vicki Rozema
Cherokee, history/photos by Fitzgerald/Conley
Chief Bowles and the Texas Cherokees by Mary Whatley Clarke
History of the Cherokees by Starr
Rootsteps of the Cherokees by Rozema
American Indian Research by Dorothy Mauldin
Mooney's History, Myths & Etc. by James Mooney
History of the Moravian Missions Among Southern Indian Tribes of the U.S. by Stauber/Fix Schwarze
The Dawes Commission by Kent Carter
Cherokee Removal, the Journal of Rev. D. Butrick
Cherokee Footprints, Vol. II by Charles O. Walker
Cherokee Trail Diaries Vol. I, II, III by Fletcher
Nancy Ward and Dragging Canoe by Pat Alderman
Beloved Mother Story of Nancy Ward by Charlotte Ellington
The Cherokee's and their Chiefs, by Stanley Hoig
Seuoyah, The Cherokee Genius by Stanley Hoig
Five Civilized Tribes by Grant Foreman
Genealogy of the Cherokee Starrs by Daisy Romans
The Cherokees by Grace Steele Woodward
Civil War in Indian Territory by Steve Cottrell
Cherokee Messenger , Story of Samuel A. Worcestor Missionary to the Cherokees by Althea Bas
Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839 by William McLoughlin
Cherokee Cavaliers, Forty Years of Correspondence of the Ridge Watie Boudinot Family by Edward Dale & Gaston Litton
Ned Christie Biography by Roy Hamilton
Last of the Cherokee Warriors by Phillip Steele
We Ae Not Gathered Here Alone, Novel of the Creek Nation by Donna Hamilton
Will Rigers by Liz Sonneborn
The Fleetwood Chronicles by Jennifer Sparks
Cherokee Ancestry Resource Guide by Frankie Gilliam
Indian Territory Notes, Indexed by James Carselowey
My Journal, indexed by James Carselowey
Early Settlers, Indexed by James Carselowey
Cherokee Pioneers by James Carselowey
Cherokee Old Timers by James Carselowey
Cherokee Agency in Tennessee by Marybelle Chase
Where Are My Cherokees by Sandi Garrett
Only the Names Remain by Sandi Garrett
Unhallowed Intrusion, Cherokees in Georgia by Don Shadburn
Crimson and Sabres: A Confederate Record of Forsythe County Georgia by Don Shadburn
Blood Kin, The Chronicles of Upper Georgia by Don Shadburn
Pioneer History of Forsythe County, GA by Don Shadburn
The Journals of Cherokee Studies (approximately 29 copies available in print)
Villany Often Goes Unpunished, Indin Records From the North Carolina General Assembly 1675-1789 by William L. Byrd, III
The Trail of Tears by Gloria Jahoda
{If you have book on this subject to recommend or would like to tell us of your experiences with any of these books please be sure to contact us.}