Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1994
Document Type
Article
Abstract
In her very readable and significant ethnohistorical work The Texas Cherokees, Dianna Everett resourcefully tells the story of this small and little-understood group during their twenty- year tenure in Texas. Everett argues that the Cherokees' migration to, problems in, and expulsion from Texas can best be understood via their traditional yet dichotomous political structure. That is, Cherokee ideals of group consensus and harmony among individuals conflicted with the realities of factionalism; and like most writers, Everett relates that this dichotomy became detrimental only after white contact.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 14:1 (Winter 1994). Copyright © 1994 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.