Lexington Books
Pages: 206
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-66691-408-5 • Hardback • December 2022 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-66691-409-2 • eBook • November 2022 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Michael Morris is associate professor at the College of Coastal Georgia.
Chapter 1: The Anglo-Cherokee War: The Past is Prologue
Chapter 2: After the Treaty of Easton: Cherokee Diplomacy against a coming Storm
Chapter 3: Cherokee Diplomacy amid the ashes of Fort Loudoun
Chapter 4: Snowball in the Sun: Dragging Canoe and the Spirit of 1776
Chapter 5: “The Great God of Nature has not created us to be your slaves.”
Cherokee Odyssey is indispensable to understanding the forces that created and propelled Dragging Canoe’s late-eighteenth-century Cherokee revitalization movement, as well the legacy it left behind. At every turn of the page, Morris provides deep insights into Cherokee diplomacy, military history, and culture. Cherokee Odyssey offers a carefully reconstructed and deeply insightful exploration of Cherokee history. In this long-overdue book, Morris reveals how Cherokee leaders exercised agency, repeatedly making difficult choices in an effort to negotiate with colonizers as allies, not as subjects, in an attempt to preserve the Cherokee way of life.
— Daniel J. Tortora, author of Carolina in Crisis: Cherokees, Colonists, and Slaves in the American Southeast, 1756–1763