Cherokees

• “The Cherokees are the most advanced in education of all the tribes in the United States, though in orderly living, I think, the Pueblos of New Mexico surpass them.”

  Notes Among the Indians

• “The Cherokees were the first to be brought under direct christian influence and they were probably in the lead of all the Indians on the continent in civilization, or practice of the useful arts and enjoyment of the common comforts of life.”

  The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy

• “The Cherokees are the biggest rascals in the Territory, the meanest horse-thieves, and couldn't tell the truth to save their rascally necks from the halter," said Swanson.”

  Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery

• “The Cherokees were the mountaineers of aboriginal America, and, like most mountaineers, had an intense love of country and a keen appreciation of the beautiful in nature, as is shown by the poetical names they have bequeathed to their rivers and mountains.”

  Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

• “The refusal of the Georgia members to go with the Tenneseeans disappointed the land-hungry whites, and from that time the authorities of the State labored incessantly both to break down the notion that the Cherokees were a “nation” to be dealt with through diplomatic channels, and to extend over them, in effect, the full sovereignty of the State.”

  The Reign of Andrew Jackson

• “The Cherokees were the mountaineers of the South, originally holding the entire Appalachian region from the headwaters of the Kanawha on the north to middle Georgia on the south.”

  Indians of North Carolina: Letter from the Secretary of the Interior, Transmitting, in Response to a Senate Resolution of June 30, 1914, a Report on the Condition and Tribal Rights of the Indians of Robeson and Adjoining Counties of North Carolina

• “The refusal of the Georgia members to go with the Tenneseeans disappointed the land-hungry whites, and from that time the authorities of the State labored incessantly both to break down the notion that the Cherokees were a "nation" to be dealt with through diplomatic channels, and to extend over them, in effect, the full sovereignty of the State.”

  The Reign of Andrew Jackson

• “The Cherokees were a sedentary and agricultural people, with hunting and fishing as subordinate occupations.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux

• “Under the influence of the white man, the Cherokees were the first to adopt a constitutional form of government embodied in a code of laws written in their own language.”

  The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America

• “The Cherokees were a bright, intelligent race, better fitted to "follow the white man's road" than any other Indians.”

  The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776

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