Cherokee Voices: Early Accounts of Cherokee Life in the East (Real Voices, Real History)

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Summary: Interesting, useful and unique perspective of Cherokee life
Review: Cherokee Voices is a collection of first person accounts of Cherokee life in the east in the 18th and 19th century. The accounts are taken from journals, letters, official records, and other primary sources and describe a wide range of events in Cherokee daily life and historical events. Included are speeches by Nancy Ward, the famous Cherokee Beloved Woman, and Ostenaco and Little Carpenter, two famous 18th century Overhill Cherokee leaders. Eyewitness accounts of a Chickamauga attack on travelers on the Tennessee River, a Cherokee ball game, a Cherokee dance, descriptions of council houses, life in a Cherokee Mission, front row seats at treaty talks, and other first person accounts make this book more interesting than your typical dry textbook of Cherokee history. Rozema's book would be useful for schools for assigned reading by students to learn what the Cherokees were really like. It would be helpful to teachers or anyone else wanting to get a quick, interesting and unique perspective of Cherokee history and life.