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The Payne-Butrick papers

This set is a collection of information about traditional Cherokee culture. Because many of the Cherokees own records were lost during their forced removal to the west, the Payne-Butrick Papers are the most detailed written source about the Cherokee Nation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The collection also contains much of the Cherokee leaders correspondence, and covers nearly all aspects of traditional Cherokee culture and history, including politics, myths, early and later religious beliefs, rituals, marriage customs, ball play, language, dances, and attitudes toward children

Print Book, English, 2010
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb., 2010