The Cherokee Princes (SIGNED by Author)

The Cherokee Princes: Mixed Marriages and Murders - The True Unknown Story Behind the Trail of Tears (SIGNED by Author)Contributor(s): by Dean W. Arnold (Author)ISBN: 0989377946  EAN: 978-0989377942Binding: Trade PaperboundPub Date: June 16, 2019 Description: Intermarriages, assassinations, and missionary arrests threatened Andrew Jackson with Civil War thirty years before Lincoln.The Connecticut town of Cornwall rioted when John Ridge proposed to Sarah—not because she was fifteen but because John was an Indian, a future Cherokee chief. He and other 'Cherokee Princes' mastered Greek and Latin at these prestigious New England schools and served as diplomats in Washington for the Cherokee Nation, ninety percent of which became literate Christians and farm owners. When these scholars returned to their homeland in Appalachia, settlers continued to seek fortunes by taking land from the ‘savages.’ A young missionary suffered in prison for siding with the Cherokees, and the greatest civil ri