The Dividing Paths

This book focuses on the American Cherokee people and the South Carolina settlers in the years 1608, when Charleston was established as the main town in the region, until 1785, when a treaty effectively removed the Cherokees from the region. The two cultures and their communities are treated in parallel chapters. After 70 years of regular trade and nominal alliance, relations were exacerbated, especially during the Cherokee-English war of 1759 to 1761. The book is concerned as much with the interation between the two groups as the contrasts between them. The book contributes in major ways to understanding Indian-White relations in Colonial America.