The Cherokee War of 1776: Native Destruction at the Dawn of American Independence
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Book Overview The forgotten history of the US war against the Cherokee offers a crucial reframing of America's origin story.Americans remember 1776 as ...
The forgotten history of the US war against the Cherokee offers a crucial reframing of America's origin story.
Americans remember 1776 as the year liberty was declared, the moment they cast off tyranny and proclaimed the self-evident truths of equality and freedom. But that same summer, as patriots celebrated their defiant new nation, American armies launched another campaign--this one aimed at destroying the Cherokee nation.
The Cherokee War of 1776 recasts America's founding moment by tracing the importance of westward ambition and settler violence to the origins of the Revolutionary War. In this gripping and sobering book, historian Kevin Kokomoor uncovers the rarely acknowledged war waged by the emerging United States against the Cherokee people just days after the Declaration of Independence was signed. Far from a spontaneous frontier skirmish, this war was a coordinated, state-backed campaign with a clear aim: seize Indigenous land and crush Native resistance. Many of the very men who championed liberty on parchment simultaneously advocated for the wholesale destruction of a sovereign Native nation.
At the heart of this story is Cherokee resistance, which was strategic, determined, and deeply rooted in community dynamics. Figures like Dragging Canoe emerged to lead a movement that endured long after American armies had burned Cherokee towns to the ground. Kokomoor foregrounds Cherokee voices, motivations, and resilience, challenging the notion that they were merely pawns in a colonial struggle and forcing us to reckon with the real costs of independence and the long fight for Indigenous soveregnity.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR | ISBN: 1421454564
FormatHardcover
ISBN1421454564
EAN9781421454566
PublisherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight1.48 Pounds
Length9.27 Inches
Width6.21 Inches
Height1.27 Inches
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