Reinhardt University is hosting a two-day gathering about Cherokee Indian history that is being led by historians from the Cherokee Nation and Oklahoma Historical Society.
Reinhardt University is hosting a two-day gathering about Cherokee Nation history that is being led by historians from the Cherokee Nation and Oklahoma Historical Society.
Directly alongside the trough were the open-air stockades where the Ithumba orphans had already gathered for the night, staring over at their wild counterparts, which, between sips, stared back.
The U.S. government sent in 7,000 troops, who forced the Cherokees into stockades at bayonet point. They were not allowed time to gather their belongings, and as they left, whites looted their homes.
The treaty went into effect. The Cherokees were imprisoned in stockades in the summer of 1838. Some of them began their trek west, that summer. But casualties were so high that Principal Chief ...
And for thousands of years of human history in every society on Earth, they used physical punishments for certain crimes -- whipping, amputation, all sorts of innovative techniques, stockades ...
We’re joined by award-winning Cherokee writer and journalist Rebecca Nagle, whose new book, By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land, has just been released. By ...