Voices of Cherokee Women

Part 1 Stories of the Cherokees

How the World Was Made

Kana’tĭ and Selu: The Origin of Game and Corn

U’tlûñ’tă, the Spear-finger

Nûñ’yunu’wĭ , Stone Coat

Part 2 Encounters

James Adair Excerpt

Henry Timberlake Memoir

John Haywood Excerpt

William Bartram Excerpts

Louis Philippe Excerpt

Payne-Butrick Papers

Part 3 The Civilization Program

Memoir of Catharine Brown

Wahnenauhi Excerpt

Cherokee Phoenix Articles

Part 4 The Trail of Tears

Petitions by Cherokee Women, 1817, 1818

Catherine Beecher Letter

Evan Jones Journal

Petitions of Ross’s Landing Prisoners

Rebecca Neugin Interview

Kate Rackleff Interview

Wahnenauhi Excerpt

Daniel Sabin Butrick Journal

Lilian Lee Anderson Interview

Bettie Perdue Woodall Interview

Ida Mae Hughes Interview

Eliza Whitmire Interview

Elizabeth Watts Interview

Mary Cobb Agnew Interview

Part 5 The Civil War

Ella Coody Robinson Interview

Letters between Mary Bryan Stapler Ross and John Ross

Letters between Sarah and Stand Watie

Hannah Worcester Hicks Diary

Mary Cobb Agnew Interview

Lizzie Wynn Interview

Emma J. Sixkiller Interview

Mary Alice Arendell Interview

Mary Scott Gordon Interview

Elinor Boudinot Meigs Interview

Elizabeth Watts Interview

Part 6 Allotment and Assimilation

Josephine Pennington Interview

Lena Barnett Interview

Mary J. Baker Interview

Minnie L. Miller Interview

Rose Stremlau Excerpt

II Assimilation

Ella Robinson Excerpt

Annie Williams Armor Interview

Lucille S. Brannon Interview

T. L. Ballenger Excerpts

Cherokee National Female Seminary Catalog Excerpts

Cherokee Rose Buds Excerpts

Part 7 Leading Cherokee Women

Isabel Cobb Selections

Aggie Ross Lossiah Article

Wilma Mankiller Essay

Acknowledgments