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Fire and the Spirits: Cherokee Law From Clan to Court

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Author(s): Rennard Strickland, Neill H. Alford
Series: Civilization of the American Indian Series, 133
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Year: 1982

Language: English
Pages: 491
City: Athens
Tags: Native Americans, Cherokee Indian Nation, legal system and practice

Foreword,
by Neill H. Alford, Jr.
Page
ix
Preface xi
I. The Cherokees: People of the Fire 3
II. Traditional Law Ways and the Spirit World 10
III. Changing Cherokee Conditions 40
IV. Stages in Development 53
V. Tribal Goals and Values in Cherokee Law 73
VI. Corpus of the Cherokee Written Laws 103
VII. Lawyers, Judges, and Sheriffs: Cherokee Courts in
Operation
120
VIII. Cherokee Supreme Courts Apply Their Law,
18671898
158
IX. Criminal Punishment: A Case Study of Tribal
Change
168
X. The End of Cherokee Law 175
XI. Survival of Traditional Cherokee Ways 183
Appendices 203
1. Cherokee Legal History: Chronology, 205
2. Summary of Early Laws of the Cherokees,
211
3. Cherokee Constitution 227
4. Jefferson to the Cherokee Deputies, January 9, 1809 237
Bibliography 239
Index 255