The Five civilized tribes [by] Grant Foreman; introductory note by John R. Swanton.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Civilization of the American IndianPublication details: Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1934.Description: 455, [1] p. front., plates, port., fold. map, facsim. 24 cmSubject(s):
Contents:
Book 1. Choctaw. Problems of a new home -- Schools and missionaries -- Signs of Improvement -- Institutions take form -- Threat of civil disorder -- Book 2. Chickasaw. Chickasaw description -- Difficulties with wild Indians -- Union with Choctaw dissolved -- Relations with the military -- Book 3. Creek. Victims of contractors -- Efforts to unite the tribe -- Hostility to the missionaries -- Progress notes -- Accounts by observers -- Laws and customs -- Book 4. Seminole. Contemporary descriptions -- Oppose union with Creeks -- Emigration resumed -- Intrigues of Wild Cat -- Justice to the Indians -- Book 5. Cherokee. Readjustment -- The act of union -- John Howard Payne's description -- Civil disorders -- The treaty of 1846 -- Advancement -- Cherokee people at home -- Sequoyah and his alphabet -- The cold water army -- Gossip from the Cherokee advocate -- Approaching the Civil war -- Reconstruction achieved.
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"First edition."

"The present volume takes up the narrative where Advancing the frontier left it."--Introductory note.

Bibliography: p. 427-431.

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Book 1. Choctaw. Problems of a new home -- Schools and missionaries -- Signs of Improvement -- Institutions take form -- Threat of civil disorder -- Book 2. Chickasaw. Chickasaw description -- Difficulties with wild Indians -- Union with Choctaw dissolved -- Relations with the military -- Book 3. Creek. Victims of contractors -- Efforts to unite the tribe -- Hostility to the missionaries -- Progress notes -- Accounts by observers -- Laws and customs -- Book 4. Seminole. Contemporary descriptions -- Oppose union with Creeks -- Emigration resumed -- Intrigues of Wild Cat -- Justice to the Indians -- Book 5. Cherokee. Readjustment -- The act of union -- John Howard Payne's description -- Civil disorders -- The treaty of 1846 -- Advancement -- Cherokee people at home -- Sequoyah and his alphabet -- The cold water army -- Gossip from the Cherokee advocate -- Approaching the Civil war -- Reconstruction achieved.