The Cherokees: A Population History

by Russell Thornton

The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. He discusses their mysterious origins, their first contact with Europeans (prob-ably in 1540), and their fluctuation in population during...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803294107
• ISBN13: 9780803294103
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"