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| Tango01 | 11 Aug 2022 4:58 p.m. PST |
… Cherokees, 1828–1866
"Unconquerable is John Milton Oskison's biography of John Ross, written in the 1930s but unpublished until now. John Ross was principal chief of the Cherokees from 1828 to his death in 1866. Through the story of John Ross, Oskison also tells the story of the Cherokee Nation through some of its most dramatic events in the nineteenth century: the nation's difficult struggle against Georgia, its forced removal on the Trail of Tears, its internal factionalism, the Civil War, and the reconstruction of the nation in Indian Territory west of the Mississippi…"
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| Kevin C | 11 Aug 2022 5:28 p.m. PST |
Thanks' for posting. My wife is a direct descendent of John Ross and is supposedly related somehow to his arch rival Stand Watie (though that part is still a little in doubt). |
| Tango01 | 12 Aug 2022 4:07 p.m. PST |
No mention my friend… Armand |
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