Ronald N. Satz

A brief history of the native american inhabitants of Tennessee from prehistory prior to the first contact in 1540 to their removal during the Trail of Tears. A good informative read particularly in regards to the prehistory becoming more generic and politicized as it approaches the modern age. A good book if somewhat lacking in details.

a canoe fight away from one of the best works on natives in Tennessee. a refreshingly more comprehensive account than some of the more cherokee obsessed counterparts, giving the chickasaws their credit. a non-apologetic but fair history and brief but revealing ethnography, tragically essential to any Tennessean. an educational read

A really horrific look at some of the strategems used on the indigenes. This appears to be a carefully unemotional presentationo by a cautiously professional historian, but it goes into part of the genesis of the Trail of Tears and related ethnic cleansing movements. (Preliminary review based on partial reading.)