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The Cherokee War of 1776 : native destruction at the dawn of American independence / Kevin Kokomoor.

Native destruction at the dawn of American independence (portion title)
Kokomoor, Kevin, (author.).

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"Americans remember 1776 as the year liberty was declared, the moment they cast off tyranny and proclaimed the self-evident truths of equality and freedom. But that same summer, as patriots celebrated their defiant new nation, American armies launched another campaign -- this one aimed at destroying the Cherokee nation. The Cherokee War of 1776 recasts America's founding moment by tracing the importance of westward ambition and settler violence to the origins of the Revolutionary War. In this gripping and sobering book, historian Kevin Kokomoor uncovers the rarely acknowledged war waged by the emerging United States against the Cherokee people just days after the Declaration of Independence was signed. Far from a spontaneous frontier skirmish, this war was a coordinated, state-backed campaign with a clear aim: seize Indigenous land and crush Native resistance. Many of the very men who championed liberty on parchment simultaneously advocated for the wholesale destruction of a sovereign Native nation. At the heart of this story is Cherokee resistance, which was strategic, determined, and deeply rooted in community dynamics. Figures like Dragging Canoe emerged to lead a movement that endured long after American armies had burned Cherokee towns to the ground. Kokomoor foregrounds Cherokee voices, motivations, and resilience, challenging the notion that they were merely pawns in a colonial struggle and forcing us to reckon with the real costs of independence and the long fight for Indigenous sovereignty"-- Provided by publisher.

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  • ISBN: 9781421454566
  • ISBN: 1421454564
  • Physical Description: ix, 367 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2026.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-356) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: Celebrating independence and invasion in Charleston, 1776 -- Prologue: From the first Cherokee War to 1763 -- Part I: Revolution and the Cherokees. A postwar push for Cherokee land ; Conflicted Cherokees, united neighbors ; A struggle for Cherokee neutrality ; American antagonizers, native instigators, British abbettors -- Part II: The Cherokee War of 1776. The Cherokee War of 1776, part 1 ; Blaming, invading, "extirpating" ; The Cherokee War of 1776, part 2 ; Conquering Americans, conquered Cherokees -- Part III: The Revolutionary War and the Cherokees. Regrouping, rebuilding, resisting ; Rejoining the frontier war ; Charleston and Cherokees in 1780 ; A Chickamauga rise and a British collapse -- Epilogue: From the Cherokee War to the Chickamauga War.

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Dragging Canoe, -1792.
Indians of North America > History > Revolution, 1775-1783.
Indians of North America > History.
Indians of North America > Wars.
Cherokee Indians > History.
Indigenous peoples of North America.
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Informational works.

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