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The Cherokees: A Population History

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The Cherokees: A Population History - Thornton, Russell
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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 the eighteenth century, when the Old World brought them smallpox. The toll taken ...

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The Cherokees: A Population History 1992, University of Nebraska Press

ISBN-13: 9780803294103

Revised edition

Trade paperback

The Cherokees: A Population History 1990, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE

ISBN-13: 9780803244160

Hardcover