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Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal (2019)
Book
Smithers, G. (2019). Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal. University of Oklahoma Press

Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithe... Read More about Native Southerners: Indigenous History from Origins to Removal.

Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together”: Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America (2017)
Journal Article
Smithers, G. (2017). Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together”: Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America. Journal of Social History, 50(4), 609-629. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shw066

The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries proved transformative for Cherokee people. At the dawn of the eighteenth century, Cherokees lived in towns and nurtured strong regional affiliations that were overlaid with the sacred obligations associat... Read More about Our Hands and Hearts are Joined Together”: Friendship, Colonialism, and the Cherokee People in Early America.

The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity (2015)
Book
Smithers, G. (2015). The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity. Yale University Press

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one... Read More about The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity.