The Cherokee Ghost Dance : Essays on the Southeastern Indians, 1789-1861
In these essays a distinguished historian analyzes how the Indian nations of the Southeast grappled with nationalism, slavery, and missionaries.
Against the background of this “combined onslaught on their cultural identity,” McLoughlin describes what the Indians did “to preserve what they considered most important.” The fate of Native Americans was inextricably bound up with the most vital questions of national life.