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Book SynopsisBy emphasizing Indigenous agency in a rapidly changing world,
Cherokee Power challenges long-standing ideas about the power and reach of European empires in eighteenth-century North America.
Trade ReviewA stunning book. Kristofer Ray brings together careful research and elegant prose to reveal the pivotal role that the Cherokees played in a changing world.
Cherokee Power challenges our assumptions about a crucial period in North American history.”—Gregory Smithers, author of
Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native AmericaCherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs:
An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824“This fascinating account of the Cherokees during the entry of the English and French empires into the American Southeast is foundational in providing a geopolitical context for the challenges Cherokees faced in all directions before the American Revolution.”—Alan Gallay, author of
Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire
