Description
This rare and previously unpublished comprehensive collection of original materials addresses the Cherokees’ negotiations with policy makers both in Washington, DC, and the Cherokee Nation throughout the early to mid nineteenth century.
“Vitally important. John Howard Payne’s Papers of the Payne-Butrick Papers include a wealth of detailed, rich, and varied information about Cherokee and southern Indigenous life and politics collected during the nineteenth century. These significant volumes, meticulously transcribed and edited by expert documentary editor Rowena McClinton, will contribute widely to the fields of southern history, Native American history, and Cherokee studies.”—Tiya Miles, author of All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
“A godsend for students of the history of the Cherokee Nation. Publication of John Howard Payne’s Papers of the Payne-Butrick Papers will open up a new universe of information to students and scholars interested in Cherokee history and early Indian Territory periods. McClinton is the perfect editor for this enormous responsibility.”—Tim Alan Garrison, coeditor of The Native South: New Histories and Enduring Legacies
Rowena McClinton is a professor emerita of history at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She is the editor of The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, 2-volume set (Nebraska, 2007) and The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees: Abridged (Nebraska, 2010), among other works.