Fire and the spirits : Cherokee law from clan to court
This text chronicles the origins of the Cherokee system of laws form the ancient spirit decrees to the merging of tribal laws and Anglo-American law. These Indians enacted their first law in 1808 in Georgia. They later wrote a constitution, established courts and enacted laws that were in accord with the old tribal values and that reflected the whiteman's legal system
Print Book, English, [1975]
University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, [1975]
Civilization of the American Indian series, v. 133, no. 133
xx, 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9780806112275, 0806112271
1103010
The Cherokees: people of the fire
Traditional law ways and the spirit world
Changing Cherokee conditions
Stages in development
Tribal goals and values in Cherokee law
Corpus of the Cherokee written laws
Lawyers, judges, and sheriffs: Cherokee courts in operation
Cherokee Supreme Courts apply their law, 1867-1898
Criminal punishment: a case study of tribal change
The end of Cherokee law
Survival of traditional Cherokee ways
Cherokee legal history: chronology, 1540-1907
Summary of early laws of the Cherokees, 1818-1829
Cherokee constitution
Jefferson to the Cherokee deputies, January 9, 1809