United States: Toward The Setting Sun: John Ross, The Cherokees, And The Trail Of Tears

United States: Toward The Setting Sun: John Ross, The Cherokees, And The Trail Of Tears Brian Hicks   2011   Atlantic Monthly Press   Brian Hicks presents a narrative biography of John Ross, the principal chief of the Cherokee nation during the early to mid nineteenth-century, and his political maneuverings to help the Cherokee peoples “adapt to the changing world,” particularly amid American designs to seize indigenous lands (28). In particular, Hicks focuses on Ross’s efforts to steer the...

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