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This dissertation explores the early nineteenth century missions to the Cherokee nation, which lasted from 1801 until Cherokee Removal in 1838-39, and reveals that the almost forty-year-long encounter proved remarkably transformative for both evangelists and Indians. Missionary …

Red Clay State Historic Park preserves and commemorates the last capital of the Cherokee Nation prior to removal, the Red Clay Council Ground. Since the forced removal, the land has ever since been contested ground. Whites quickly acquired it and turned what had been a Native Am…

Popular narratives and public history institutions purposefully or incidentally erase Native contributions to Tennessee’s geography. However, the settlement and mapping of Tennessee was built on Native precedents. White settlers followed Native settlement patterns and early Tenn…