ᎾᎯᏳᏥᏄᏍᏛ (na-hi-yu-tsi-nu-s-dv As it used to be)
Live the Cherokee's Struggle
Step into 1789 as Enoli becomes a healer during the Colonial Wars, brothers with freedman Ben Waters and battles a malignant Mohi for his people's future. Survive a Georgia holding camp and the forced removal with Ben's daughter Ella to endure a White jury's trial to earn your legal rights. Join Ella's guerrilla sister, Lisa, and ride as a Union Pin against Confederate General Watie and Reconstruction's White Indian Territory exploitation.
“A studied look at the deadly challenges facing Indigenous people in 18th-century America.”
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“An unflinching and often engaging look at a shameful time in American history”
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"A fast-paced portrayal of a lesser-known corner of U.S. Civil War history and its aftermath."
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ᎣᏍᏓ ᎯᎪᎵᏰᎠ (o-s-da hi-go-li-ye-a Have a good read)
ᏣᎳᎩ ᏅᏯ
ᏣᎳᎩ ᎫᏣᏲᏍᏗ
ᏣᎳᎩ ᎧᏃᎩᏍᏗ
The Cherokee battle identity loss as a modern world encroaches.
The Cherokee face exclusion from home and family in Georgia
The Cherokee strive for resiliance and survival during Civil War.
Exploitation sweeps westward over the Appalachians in 1779 and engulfs a boy who loses his mother to smallpox, allies with a mentor squirrel, trains as a shaman and blood-brothers with a freedman during decades of pestilence and war, only to lose his people’s trust to a malignant medicine man before these old enemies collide in an epic good-versus-bad wolf revelation.
A Georgia Freedman’s half Cherokee daughter battles pestilence, bigotry, alcoholism, starvation and a record cold 1838 winter during a forced removal led by white profiteers and her father’s murderer that earns her people’s respect and adoration as the Cherokee Rose, then she illegally jumps her land allotment and faces a white jury in a trial that sets national precedents for the rights of Native Americans.
Torn from her past on the Trail of Tears, a half-Cherokee woman loses her sister to a political assassin, marries a freedman, organizes a freedom trail and founds a women’s rights organization during the turmoil leading to the civil war only to lose her husband and community in political strife that forces self-evaluation and confrontation with her sister’s murderer, a Confederate icon, to determine her life and future.
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ABOUT the author
James A. Humphrey is retired with his wife of fifty years in Grapevine, Texas. By birthright, he is a certified citizen of the Cherokee Nation and takes live language classes. The author is also an oil painter.
"Like painting, writing needs a stimulus. My paternal grandmother, Ella Waters, a Dawes’ Roll registrant, inspires my stories and I use her dialogue, history, culture, and language with focus and respect."
This trilogy, “Cherokee Rock,” "Cherokee Rose," and Cherokee Reel" tells the poignant story of a Cherokee families' and culture's disintegration."
Through colonial expansion, a forced removal, and pre- and post-Civil War crisis, this saga entertains the reader through Cherokee history as an extended family faces a tumultuous future.
The three novels follow different family members, two sisters and their father. Each story explores much different characters and epochs. In common, they stimulate your perceptions of justice and a self-analysis of your modern soul.
