Voices of Cherokee Women by Johnston, Carolyn Ross -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction Part 1: Stories of the Cherokees

How the World Was Made The First Fire 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

I Allotment

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 Works Cited Index