Cherokees: In War and at Peace, 1670–1840 Sumit Paul-Choudhury Isabel Wilkerson explores eight pillars

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Cherokees: In War and at Peace, 1670–1840 Sumit Paul-Choudhury Isabel Wilkerson explores eight pillarsA sweeping new history reveals how the Cherokees became a nation as they navigated a century and a half of intertribal conflicts and colonial expansion that threatened their way of life. For more than 150 years between their first encounters with the English in the 1670s and forced removal along the Trail of Tears, the Cherokees negotiated mounting pressures. As their world was convulsed by the spread of European diseases, competition for guns, furs,