The Cherokee Nation

[The Cherokee Nation of Indians is] regarded as sound, scholarly work... [on a] leading Indian tribe and... esteemed as [a] basic source... on Cherokee history.

--Arrell Morgan Gibson, The Journal of Southern History

Charles C. Royce's The Cherokee Nation of Indians (from the Fifth Annual Report 1887) is essentially a detailed, dispassionate history of treaties entered into by the Cherokees and the federal government of the United States. In addition to setting forth stipulations of each treaty, Royce presents a balanced treatment of historical factors leading up to treaty negotiations... Royce's documentation has been used successfully by lawyers pressing Cherokee claims before the Indian Claims Commission.

--Raymond D. Fogelson, Ethnohistory

Review of two books:

Charles Royce's and James Mooney's books are reprinted from the original Bureau of American Ethnology works, which respectively appeared in the Fifth and Nineteenth Annual Reports... Both works are classics in the field. Royce provides a detailed chronology of the treaties between the government and the Cherokees between 1785 and 1868. Mooney, who lived with the Cherokees between 1887 and 1900, boldly sketches the principal lines of their complex history from pre-European times to 1900. Since Royce and Mooney produced those reports, much has been written on the Cherokees, their neighbors, their achievements, and their conquest and survival. All the later writers have built on the clarity and perception of those two great historians.

--Karl H. Schlesier, American Anthropologist

[The Cherokee Nation of Indians is] regarded as sound, scholarly work... [on a] leading Indian tribe and... esteemed as [a] basic source... on Cherokee history.

--Arrell Morgan Gibson, The Journal of Southern History

Charles C. Royce's The Cherokee Nation of Indians (from the Fifth Annual Report 1887) is essentially a detailed, dispassionate history of treaties entered into by the Cherokees and the federal government of the United States. In addition to setting forth stipulations of each treaty, Royce presents a balanced treatment of historical factors leading up to treaty negotiations... Royce's documentation has been used successfully by lawyers pressing Cherokee claims before the Indian Claims Commission.

--Raymond D. Fogelson, Ethnohistory

Review of two books:

Charles Royce's and James Mooney's books are reprinted from the original Bureau of American Ethnology works, which respectively appeared in the Fifth and Nineteenth Annual Reports... Both works are classics in the field. Royce provides a detailed chronology of the treaties between the government and the Cherokees between 1785 and 1868. Mooney, who lived with the Cherokees between 1887 and 1900, boldly sketches the principal lines of their complex history from pre-European times to 1900. Since Royce and Mooney produced those reports, much has been written on the Cherokees, their neighbors, their achievements, and their conquest and survival. All the later writers have built on the clarity and perception of those two great historians.

--Karl H. Schlesier, American Anthropologist

-[The Cherokee Nation of Indians is] regarded as sound, scholarly work... [on a] leading Indian tribe and... esteemed as [a] basic source... on Cherokee history.-

--Arrell Morgan Gibson, The Journal of Southern History

-Charles C. Royce's -The Cherokee Nation of Indians- (from the Fifth Annual Report 1887) is essentially a detailed, dispassionate history of treaties entered into by the Cherokees and the federal government of the United States. In addition to setting forth stipulations of each treaty, Royce presents a balanced treatment of historical factors leading up to treaty negotiations... Royce's documentation has been used successfully by lawyers pressing Cherokee claims before the Indian Claims Commission.-

--Raymond D. Fogelson, Ethnohistory

Review of two books:

-Charles Royce's and James Mooney's books are reprinted from the original Bureau of American Ethnology works, which respectively appeared in the Fifth and Nineteenth Annual Reports... Both works are classics in the field. Royce provides a detailed chronology of the treaties between the government and the Cherokees between 1785 and 1868. Mooney, who lived with the Cherokees between 1887 and 1900, boldly sketches the principal lines of their complex history from pre-European times to 1900. Since Royce and Mooney produced those reports, much has been written on the Cherokees, their neighbors, their achievements, and their conquest and survival. All the later writers have built on the clarity and perception of those two great historians.-

--Karl H. Schlesier, American Anthropologist