People of Kituwah

John D. Loftin, who has been hanging around Indian Country for more than 40 years, has taught widely and written in the field of American Indian spirituality. A third-generation North Carolina lawyer, he has also represented the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians since 2003.Benjamin E. Frey is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He teaches courses in Cherokee language, philosophy, and worldview, and is proficient in the Cherokee language. He is also involved in the revitalization and preservation of the Cherokee language.

• ContentsPreface Introduction PART ONE. BEFORE CONTACT 1. ᏗᏓᎴᏂᏍᎬ ᎤᏂᏃᎮᏓ: Eastern Cherokee Creation and Subsistence Narratives 2. ᎠᏂᎩᏚᏩᎩ ᏍᎦᏚᎩ: Cherokee Community 3. ᎤᎵᏍᎨᏗ ᎢᏳᎾᏛᏁᏘ: Cherokee Ceremonial Life 4. ᏅᏬᏘ: Cherokee Medicine PART TWO. AFTER CONTACT 5. The Contact Era: 1540–1760 6. Contact, Colonialism, and Christianity: 1725–1799 7. Christian Missions and the Ghost Dance: 1799–1815 8. Missionaries and Medicine Men: 1815–1828 9. Cherokees, Christianity, and Myth: 1818–1830 10. Christianity and Cherokee Removal: 1830–1838 11. Cherokee Isolation, the Civil War, and Traditional Religion: 1839–1900 12. Cherokee Traditions in the Twentieth Century Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index

“This is an impressively researched and wide-ranging religio-historical survey emphasizing Cherokee cultural continuity across time and space….readers would do well to add People of Kituwah to their bookshelves as an essential contribution to the field of Cherokee Studies”