Cherokee Power: Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670-1774 Volume 22 Ray Kristofer
Cherokee Power: Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670-1774 Volume 22 Ray Kristofer In 1754 South Carolina governor James Glen observed that the Tennessee River "has…
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Cherokee Power: Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670-1774 Volume 22 Ray Kristofer
In 1754 South Carolina governor James Glen observed that the Tennessee River "has its rise in the Cherokee Nation and runs a great way through it." While noting the "prodigious" extent of the corridor connecting the Tennessee, Ohio, and Wabash River valleys--and the Cherokees' "undoubted" ownership of this watershed--Glen and other European observers were much less clear about the ambitions and claims of European empires and other Indigenous polities regarding the North American interior. In Cherokee Power, Kristofer Ray brings long-overdue clarity to this question by highlighting the role of the Overhill Cherokees in shaping imperial and Indigenous geopolitics in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America.As Great Britain and France eyed the Illinois country and the Tennessee, Ohio, and Wabash River valleys for their respective empires, the Overhill Cherokees were