Reliable Sources - Books - Cherokee

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List of reliable books related to Cherokee history and genealogy:

1835 Cherokee Census, sometimes called the "Trail of Tears Roll" or the "Henderson Roll," transcription published by the Oklahoma Chapter, Trail of Tears Association, Park Hill, OK. 2002. Original records: National Archives and Records Administration, Microfilm publication T496, Census Roll, 1835, of Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi with Index. Portions digitized at FamilySearch.

Adair, James. The History of the American Indians. London, 1775; reprint with introduction by Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. Johnson, New York: Reprint Corp, 1968. Digitized at https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica00adairich/page/n3

American State Papers, Indian Affairs, 1785-1827, two volumes. Digitized at Library of Congress, StatePapers

Alvord, Clarence Walworth & Bidgood, Lee. The First Explorations of the Trans-Allegheny Region by the Virginians, 1650-1674. Cleveland, Arthur H. Clark, 1912. First hand accounts. Digitized at https://archive.org/details/firstexploration00alv/page/n8

Anderson, Brown, Rogers, eds., The Payne-Butrick Papers. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2010.

Baker, Jack D. transcriber. Cherokee Emigration Rolls 1817-1835. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1977. Original Records: National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs 1793-1999. Bartram, William. Travels in North America. New Haven, Yale University Press

Blackburn, King, and Morton. Cherokee Nation: A History of Survival, Determination, and Identity. Cherokee Nation, 2018.

Blankenship Bob, transcriber. Cherokee Roots, Vol. 1, Eastern Cherokee Rolls 1817-1927. Vol. II, Cherokee West of the Mississippi, Drennan Roll, Old Settler Roll, combined index of Guion Miller and Dawes rolls. Self-published. Cherokee, N.C. 1992.

Bonnefoy, Antoine. “Journal”. Reprint in Williams, Samuel Cole. Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1580-1800 Johnson City, Tennessee, Watauga Press, 1928

Brown, John. P. “Old Frontiers.” Southern Publishers, Kingsport, TN. 1938.

Butrick, Daniel S. “The Journal of Rev. Daniel S. Butrick, May 19, 1838 – April 1, 1839.” Trail of Tears Association, Oklahoma Chapter, Park Hill, OK 1998.

Chase, Maybelle, transcriber. “Records of the Cherokee Agency in Tennessee 1801-1835.” Talbot Library and Museum, Colcord, OK. Images at Fold3.

Colonial Records of Virginia:

Executive Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, 1680-1775; volumes 2-6 (1699-1775) are available and searchable via Hathi Trust's digital library. Also available and searchable from the website of Internet Archive (archive.org); University of Pennsylvania has convenient links to all volumes at Internet Archive.

Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, 1619-1776; all made available and searchable via Hathi Trust's digital library.

Journals of the Council of the State of Virginia, 1776-1791; all made available and searchable via Hathi Trust's digital library.

Minutes of the Council and General Court of colonial Virginia, 1622-1632, 1670-1676; searchable via archive.org. Available digitally and searchable from the website of Internet Archives (archive.org).

Legislative Journals of the Council of Colonial Virginia, 1680-1773; available and searchable via Hathi Trust's digital library.

The Statutes at large; being a collection of all the laws of Virginia, from the first session ....available via Internet Archives (archive.org)

Colonial Records of North Carolina - digitized at the University of North Carolina at NCColonial

Colonial Records of South Carolina -- Journals of the Commons House of Assembly; Records of a Proprietary Colony 1663-1721. Many volumes, some digitized.

Conley, Robert. A Cherokee Encyclopedia. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 2007.

Corkran, David H. The Cherokee Frontier 1740-1762. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman. 1962

Crews & Starbuck, eds. Records of the Moravians Among the Cherokees. Cherokee Heritage Press, Tahlequah, OK. 10 Volumes

Cuming, Alexander “Journal of Sir Alexander Cuming” Reprint in Williams’ Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1580-1800 Johnson City, Tennessee, Watauga Press, 1928

Eastern Cherokee Applications of the U.S. Court of Claims, 1906-1909. NARA M1104. Digitized at Fold3

Grant, Ludovic. “Historical Relation of the Facts.” 1755. Reprinted in the “Journal of Cherokee Studies” Vol. XXVI, pp. 2-23.

Hampton, David K. Cherokee Mixed-Bloods. Arc Press of Cane Hill, Lincoln, Arkansas. 2005

Hampton, David K., transcriber. Cherokee Old Settlers, combined transcript of 1851 and 1896 Old Settler Payrolls. 1993. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 75, Microfilms T985 and 7RA34. "Old Settler" Roll ditgitized at Ancestry.com

Hampton, David K. and Baker, Jack D., eds. Old Cherokee Families Notes of Dr. Emmet Starr. Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK. 1987

Hampton, David K. transcriber “Cherokee Reservees” Baker Publishing Co., Oklahoma City, OK 1979.

Hoig, Stanley W. The Cherokees and Their Chiefs. University of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville. 1998

Isenbarger, Dennis L. ed. Native Americans in Early North Carolina. Office of Archives and History, North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Raleigh, N.C. 2013

King, Duane H., ed. The Memoirs of Lt. Henry Timberlake. Museum of the Cherokee Indian Press, Cherokee, N.C. 2007

Klinck and Talman, eds. Journal of Major John Norton. The Champlain Society, Toronto, ON. 1970

McClinton, Rowena, ed. The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE. 2007.

Mooney, James. History, Myths, and Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees. E-book edition. Cherokee Publications, Cherokee, N.C. 2006

Phillips, Joyce and Paul, eds. “The Brainerd Journal: A Mission to the Cherokees 1817-1823.” University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 1998.

Shadburn, Don. Cherokee Planters in Georgia 1832-1838. Cumming, GA. 1990.

Shadburn, Don. Unhallowed Instrusion. Cumming, GA. 1993.

Starr, Emmet. History of the Cherokee Indians. Digitized edition at Starr

Starr, Emmet. Cherokees “West”. Emmet Starr, Claremore, OK. 1910.

Starr, Emmet. Early History of the Cherokees. Emmet Starr, Claremore, OK. 1917. Digitized at Google Books, https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=hSg0AQAAMAAJ&hl=en&pg=GBS.PP1

Steele, Grace Woodward. The Cherokees. (The Civilization of the American Indian Series [No. 651.) Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963. Note: Language is dated

Stricklin, Dawn, compiler. Cherokee Claims. National Archives and Records Administration Special File 154, Vol. 1 M574, Roll 32. Heritage Books, Westminster, MD. 2007

Tyner, James and Alice. Our People and Where They Rest. privately published, Norman, OK, 1971 13 volumes digitized at FamilySearch

Warren, Mary B. & Weeks, Eve, ed. Whites Among the Cherokees. Heritage Papers, Athens GA 1987

Wright, Muriel. Springplace Moravian Mission and the Ward Family of the Cherokee Nation. Cooperative Publishing Co., Guthrie, OK. 1940

Williams, Samuel Cole. Early Travels in the Tennessee Country, 1580-1800 Johnson City, Tennessee, Watauga Press, 1928