The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840

by Dianna Everett

In 1819 to 1820 several hundred Cherokees-led by Duwali, a chief from Tennessee-settled along the Sabine, Neches, and Angelina rivers in east Texas. Welcomed by Mexico as a buffer to U.S. settlement, Duwaliâ s people had separated from other Western Cherokees in an effort to retain the tribeâ s traditional lifeways. As Dianne Everett details in The Texas Cherokees, they found themselves "caught between two fires" in many between the Cherokee ideal of harmony and the reality of factionalism, between white settlers pushing westward and western Indians resisting incursions, and between traditional ways and the practical necessity of accommodating to whites.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

173 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1990

Reviews

[Nicholas Cox · Rating 3 out of 5]

Informative, clear writing, good for anyone interested in the topic. Familiar material to specialists. Quite brief, 121pgs of text including about 6-10 maps and portraits. Heavy on the reporting of military and political conflicts between the Cherokee, Mexican and Texan governments and not really as anthropological or cultural as billed; for a 1990 book (based on a late 1980s Texas Tech dissertation) it is about as interdisciplinary ethnohistory as we can expect from that moment.

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

In 1820 a band of Cherokee migrated to Texas relocating in the area along the Sabine River. This move was sanctioned by the Mexican government to provide a buffer against the growing United States. The Cheerokee and to deal with the conflict between leaving the main tribe and maintaining their traditional values.

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