Women, men and American Indian policy
essay 1995 Perdue, Theda

CherokeeNorth 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 intere...

The Sequoyah syllabary and cultural revitalization
essay 1994 Perdue, Theda

CherokeeNorth 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...

Cherokee planters
essay 1979 Perdue, Theda

CherokeeNorth 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 frequen...