Book
The Wahnenauhi manuscript: historical sketches of the Cherokees; together with some of their customs, traditions, and superstitions
U.S. Government Printing Office • (77) • Published In 1966 • Pages: 175-213 , plates
By: Wahnenauhi, Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick.
Abstract
This work is an edited version of a sketch of Cherokee customs, beliefs and history written by a Cherokee woman, Wahnenauhi, and presented by her to the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1889. The time period covered by the sketch is from about the time of contact with Europeans to the mid nineteenth century. This work includes discussions of Cherokee social and political organization, religious beliefs and myths, customs relating to work, play, dress and food, native-White relations during the contact period, the removal of the Cherokee west of the Mississippi River, the impact of European contact and the Removal on Cherokee society. This work also includes brief, but valuable biographical sketches of George Lowery and Sequoyah. Editorial footnotes to the text provide useful additional material and are also useful in evaluating the reliability of Wahnenauhi's manuscript.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Indigenous Person
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Gerald Reid ; John Beierle ; 1987
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1540-1870
- Coverage Place
- southeastern states, and Oklahoma, United States
- Notes
- Edited and with an introduction by Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSH
- Cherokee Indians