Cherokees of the Smoky Mountains: A Little Band that has stood against the White Tide for Three Hundred Years Audiobook by Horace Kephart

Listen to this audiobook in full for free on https://hotaudiobook.com/free ID: 677757 Title: Cherokees of the Smoky Mountains: A Little Band that has stood against the White Tide for Three Hundred Years Author: Horace Kephart, Janice Kephart Narrator: Janice Kephart Format: Unabridged Length: 01:23:29 Language: English Release date: 03-18-23 Publisher: Findaway Voices Genres: History, North America Summary: The text relates the powerful and dramatic history of Smoky Mountain Cherokees, who for 40,000 years thrived in the difficult terrain of the Great Smoky Mountains and its surrounding regionsareas of what is now Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. With a constitution and organized government, a written language and no economic debt, the Cherokees sought to live in relative peace. However, President Jackson and the state of Georgia thought differently, forcing the Cherokees and their devoted Chief John Ross to leave their homeland and be removed to Oklahoma in the Trail of Tears (1837-1839). Much political tension was exacerbated by the fact that a key Supreme Court ruling by Chief Justice John Marshall made clear that Georgian land grabbing of Cherokee lands was illegal.This story, and how one Cherokee Chief was sacrificed to retain a small piece of Cherokee land in the southwest corner of North Carolina, known today as Qualla Boundary, is told with passion, empathy and historical accuracy. Horace Kephart is also the author ofOur Southern Highlanders, Camping and WoodcraftandSmoky Mountain Magic, and the creator of the Kephart knife. Mount Kephart, a 6,217 foot peak just northwest of Qualla Boundary, was chosen by Kephart and designated in his lifetime. He was instrumental in the founding of the Great Smoky National Park. This version ofCherokees of the Smoky Mountainswas revised by Kephart's great granddaughter, Janice Kephart, a spoken word artist, narrator, and US government subject matter expert, having served as a 9/11 Commission counsel. Janice added context for some commentary within the text but left the writing mostly as is, added historical photographs from the Hunter Library Horace Kephart Archive at Western Carolina University and other libraries, and added a new ForewordandIntroduction. Contact: [email protected]