By Robert J. Conley
A Cherokee Encyclopedia is a brief reference consultant for lots of of the folks, locations, and issues attached to the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, in addition to for the opposite formally well-known Cherokee teams, the Cherokee kingdom and the jap Band of Cherokees.
From A Cherokee Encyclopedia
"Crowe, Amanda
Amanda Crowe used to be born in 1928 within the Qualla Cherokee neighborhood in North Carolina. She was once drawing and carving on the age of four and promoting her paintings at age eight. She bought her MFA from the Chicago Arts Institute in 1952 after which studied in Mexico on the Instituto Allende in San Miguel lower than a John Quincy Adams fellowship. She were clear of domestic for 12 years while the Cherokee old organization invited her again to educate artwork and woodcarving on the Cherokee highschool. . . ."
"Fields, Richard
Richard Fields used to be leader of the Texas Cherokees from 1821 till his loss of life in 1827. Assisted by way of Bowl and others, he spent a lot time in Mexico urban, first with the Spanish govt and later with the govt of Mexico, attempting to gather a transparent identify to their land. additionally they needed to deal with rumors began via white Texans concerning their meant alliances with Comanches, Tawakonis, and different Indian tribes to assault San Antonio. . . ."
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
Robert J. Conley is the writer of over seventy books. He has been offered the yank Indian competition of phrases Award for 2009. The Wordcraft Circle of local Writers and Storytellers named him Wordcrafter of the 12 months for 1997. Conley has received a variety of Spur Awards from the Western Writers of the United States and used to be provided with the Cherokee Medal of Honor in 2000. An enrolled member of the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees, Conley lives together with his spouse, Evelyn, in Norman, Oklahoma.
ACCLAIM
"...A Cherokee Encyclopedia is an up to date source hugely instructed for contemporary local American reference shelves."-- Midwest e-book Review
"Robert J. Conley has supplied informal readers of heritage historians, tribal participants and non-Natives, with a concise compendium of vital Cherokee personalities, areas, and occasions from the earlier to the current. A Cherokee Encyclopedia may still function a short reference for these attracted to the tribe's background. With an intensive bibliographic essay integrated on the shut of the publication, Conley has supplied a vital, but expandable, paintings for an individual attracted to the Cherokee country and its people."-- Chronicles of Oklahoma
"The writing type of a novelist mixed with the forged study of a historian makes this encyclopedia greater than a compendium of facts....For writers this can be a useful reference. For readers it really is in truth really entertaining."-- Roundup Magazine
"...a convenient reference for these attracted to Cherokee historical past, tradition, and people."-- Southwestern ancient Quarterly
"[A Cherokee Encyclopedia] serves as a convenient reference instrument, however it is additionally a pleasure to read."-- East Texas ancient Association