The Texas Cherokees

Subject: The Texas Cherokees Tue 24 Jul 2007, 1:04 pm

A number of years ago, now, I read the excellent book entitled, 'The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819 - 1840,' by Dianna Everett. My recall of its contents as well as much related to the Cherokees and associated tribes -- including the events surrounding Chief Bowles -- is not as it should be, however. Does anyone have more to share?

Of course, much may be found on the Web about the Cherokee people of Texas. Here are a few links, though (one of which leads to a Texas Cherokee tribe, joining numerous others, in seeking Federal recognition).

http://www.texasindians.com/cherokee.htm

http://www.texfiles.com/features/cherokee.htm

http://www.texascherokees.org/

Holly

PS. I myself am said to be 'part Cherokee' (surprise!), though through my mother's paternal, Henderson line, back in Georgia. I suspect that I join a large host of Anglo Southerners whose families carry such a tradition. Even my maternal grandmother, whose ancestors fought 'Cherokees' on several fronts, is descended from the enigmatic Lettie Durham of Georgia and elsewhere. Lettie was said to have been Cherokee, but my suspicion is that her own ancestry was from another tribe, extending backward into the late-seventeenth century.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves

Subject: Sequoyah's Passage Through Texas Tue 24 Jul 2007, 1:33 pm

The Handbook of Texas Online states that Sequoyah and his party -- on route to seek a separated group of Cherokees living in Mexico, ca. 1842 -- crossed the Rio Grande in the vicinity of present-day Maverick County. Other accounts seem to place his crossing further to the east. Sequoyah is believed by some to have died in 1843, and to have found burial in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas.

More guidance and information would be appreciated.

Holly

http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/Cherokee/SequoyahHistory.htm
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves