Kristofer Ray is Visiting Scholar in the History Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of Middle Tennessee, 1775–1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier and coeditor of Understanding and Teaching Native American History.

“A stunning book. Kristofer Ray brings together careful research and elegant prose to reveal the pivotal role that the Cherokees played in a changing world. Cherokee Power challenges our assumptions about a crucial period in North American history.” - Gregory Smithers, author of Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America“An impressive expansion of what we know about Indigenous power in the eitghteenth century. Ray re-creates a world in which Cherokees contended with other Native peoples and the French and British for control of much of eastern North America. Ray tells the story with nuance and intriguing detail, challenging our understanding of the course of empire in North America.” - Paul Kelton, author of Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824“This fascinating account of the Cherokees during the entry of the English and French empires into the American Southeast is foundational in providing a geopolitical context for the challenges Cherokees faced in all directions before the American Revolution.” - Alan Gallay, author of Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire

Kristofer Ray is Visiting Scholar in the History Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of Middle Tennessee, 1775–1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier and coeditor of Understanding and Teaching Native American History.

“A stunning book. Kristofer Ray brings together careful research and elegant prose to reveal the pivotal role that the Cherokees played in a changing world. Cherokee Power challenges our assumptions about a crucial period in North American history.” - Gregory Smithers, author of Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America“An impressive expansion of what we know about Indigenous power in the eitghteenth century. Ray re-creates a world in which Cherokees contended with other Native peoples and the French and British for control of much of eastern North America. Ray tells the story with nuance and intriguing detail, challenging our understanding of the course of empire in North America.” - Paul Kelton, author of Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824“This fascinating account of the Cherokees during the entry of the English and French empires into the American Southeast is foundational in providing a geopolitical context for the challenges Cherokees faced in all directions before the American Revolution.” - Alan Gallay, author of Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire

Kristofer Ray is Visiting Scholar in the History Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. He is the author of Middle Tennessee, 1775–1825: Progress and Popular Democracy on the Southwestern Frontier and coeditor of Understanding and Teaching Native American History.

“A stunning book. Kristofer Ray brings together careful research and elegant prose to reveal the pivotal role that the Cherokees played in a changing world. Cherokee Power challenges our assumptions about a crucial period in North American history.” - Gregory Smithers, author of Reclaiming Two-Spirits: Sexuality, Spiritual Renewal, and Sovereignty in Native America“An impressive expansion of what we know about Indigenous power in the eitghteenth century. Ray re-creates a world in which Cherokees contended with other Native peoples and the French and British for control of much of eastern North America. Ray tells the story with nuance and intriguing detail, challenging our understanding of the course of empire in North America.” - Paul Kelton, author of Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824“This fascinating account of the Cherokees during the entry of the English and French empires into the American Southeast is foundational in providing a geopolitical context for the challenges Cherokees faced in all directions before the American Revolution.” - Alan Gallay, author of Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire