Cherokee woman,

Cherokee Woman, by Francis M. Daves This powerful novel explores the drama as it affects the life of a young white man, David Graham, who, in 1834, set out from his home in McIntosh County, Georgia, to claim a forty-acre lot in Cherokee Nation 300 miles away, drawn by his father in the state lottery. Intertwined with his story is that of the Cherokee family he finds living on the property he has come to claim—half-breed Alex Montgomery, his Cherokee wife, and their daughter, Nita. As a result, David finds himself caught up in the Cherokees’ struggle to keep their lands and the inexorable force of the white man’s government goal to expel the Indians from their land.