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Women, men and American Indian policyessay 1995 • Perdue, Theda
Cherokee • North America > Eastern Woodlands
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Cherokees became active in the deerskin trade introduced into the Southeast by Europeans, but by the late 1700s, Euro-Americans were more interested in land than in trading for hides. From the end of th...The Sequoyah syllabary and cultural revitalizationessay 1994 • Perdue, Theda
Cherokee • North America > Eastern Woodlands
This is a brief historical account of the invention of the Cherokee writing system or syllabary by Sequoyah in the early nineteenth century and its subsequent affect on the culture and society of the Cherokee. The syllabary itself consists of a desig...Cherokee plantersessay 1979 • Perdue, Theda
Cherokee • North America > Eastern Woodlands
Perdue describes the origin and development of slavery among the Cherokee following the American Revolutionary War and up to approximately 1838. The author notes that war captives were frequently treated as slaves by the Cherokee and this article dis...