Michael Morris is associate professor at the College of Coastal Georgia.

Cherokee Odyssey is indispensable to understanding the forces that created and propelled Dragging Canoe’s late-eighteenth-century Cherokee revitalization movement, as well the legacy it left behind. At every turn of the page, Morris provides deep insights into Cherokee diplomacy, military history, and culture. Cherokee Odyssey offers a carefully reconstructed and deeply insightful exploration of Cherokee history. In this long-overdue book, Morris reveals how Cherokee leaders exercised agency, repeatedly making difficult choices in an effort to negotiate with colonizers as allies, not as subjects, in an attempt to preserve the Cherokee way of life.

• Chapter 1: The Anglo-Cherokee War: The Past is PrologueChapter 2: After the Treaty of Easton: Cherokee Diplomacy against a coming StormChapter 3: Cherokee Diplomacy amid the ashes of Fort LoudounChapter 4: Snowball in the Sun: Dragging Canoe and the Spirit of 1776Chapter 5: “The Great God of Nature has not created us to be your slaves.”

Michael Morris is associate professor at the College of Coastal Georgia.

Cherokee Odyssey is indispensable to understanding the forces that created and propelled Dragging Canoe’s late-eighteenth-century Cherokee revitalization movement, as well the legacy it left behind. At every turn of the page, Morris provides deep insights into Cherokee diplomacy, military history, and culture. Cherokee Odyssey offers a carefully reconstructed and deeply insightful exploration of Cherokee history. In this long-overdue book, Morris reveals how Cherokee leaders exercised agency, repeatedly making difficult choices in an effort to negotiate with colonizers as allies, not as subjects, in an attempt to preserve the Cherokee way of life.

• Chapter 1: The Anglo-Cherokee War: The Past is PrologueChapter 2: After the Treaty of Easton: Cherokee Diplomacy against a coming StormChapter 3: Cherokee Diplomacy amid the ashes of Fort LoudounChapter 4: Snowball in the Sun: Dragging Canoe and the Spirit of 1776Chapter 5: “The Great God of Nature has not created us to be your slaves.”