Secret History of the Cherokees

The stunning saga of the Cherokees, told here like never before, fills these pages with remarkable historic events and larger than life heroes and villains of America's most powerful tribe. Delve into richly described scenes of treachery and triumph, lust and love, with such unforgettable characters as Sequoyah, Sam Houston, Rich Joe Vann, the Beloved Woman Nancy Ward, John Ross, Stand Watie and the outlaw Tom Starr.Feel the desperation left by the Trail of Tears and the inter-tribal murders that followed in the wilderness of Indian Territory. See the lines of division erupt again as the Cherokees are inescapably plunged into the American Civil War. And hear, perhaps for the first time, the voices of their African captives as they rise from the carefully concealed wound that was Cherokee slavery. Three years in the making, Secret History of the Cherokees spans over one-hundred years of Cherokee and American history. From the birth of the Cherokee slave-holding republic in 1808 to the high tide of the Civil War in Indian Territory, Secret History of the Cherokees tells the hidden stories of how the Cherokees came to be the largest and most diverse of North American Indian nations. The result of exhaustive research, close examination of the culture and incisive analysis, Secret History of the Cherokees is certainly Cherokee history as it has never before been written. Robert J. Conley (author of A Cherokee Encyclopedia and The Cherokee Nation - a History) writes of the novel - "There has never been anything quite like it before and there probably never will be again." Secret History of the Cherokees is a historical novel without naivety or sentimentality. Equal parts Twain, Faulkner, Forrest Carter and Cormac McCarthy, the novel is a postmodern southern western with a strong feminist sensibility and multicultural focus.Secret History of the Cherokees contains scenes and language intended for adult readers.