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Author Owen, Narcissa, 1831-1911.

Title A Cherokee woman's America : memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907 / edited and introduced by Karen L. Kilcup ; preface and notes by Karen L. Kilcup and Stephen Brandon
Published Gainesville : University Press of Florida, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 189 pages) : illustrations
Contents Genealogy -- "The art spirit remains in me to this day": Contexts, Contemporaries, and Narcissa Owen's Political Aesthetics -- Memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907 -- Some Old Cherokee Legends and Beliefs -- The Story of Kalanah -- The Story of Chic-sa-te-he -- Thanksgiving Proclamation -- A Cherokee Rheumatism Cure -- Cherokee Cure for Snake Bite -- Cherokees Visit England-Ocono-stota-Conflict with Georgia-Removal to West -- The First English Treaty with the Cherokees, 1730 -- Oconostota -- The First Migration to the Indian Territory -- Claremore -- Concerning My Father, Thomas Chisholm, and President Thomas Jefferson -- The Jefferson Medal -- Some Recollections of My Early Life -- Memories of Clinch River and Lynchburg -- Life on Clinch River, at Evan's Bridge -- Lynchburg -- Making Confederate Uniforms -- The King Story -- Soldier's Story -- A Piece of Embroidery -- The Author as Mother and Teacher-Vicissitudes -- A New Variety of Burglar -- Wharton Tragedy, Being a Word More Concerning Ancestry -- Modern Misrepresentation of the Indians -- Being a Miscellaneous Chapter Concerning Many Persons and Things -- Home at the Metropolitan -- Some Family Data -- Some Things I Have Enjoyed -- Monticello
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index
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Subject Owen, Narcissa, 1831-1911.
SUBJECT Owen, Narcissa, 1831-1911 fast
Subject Cherokee women -- Biography
Cherokee Indians -- History
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- State & Local.
Cherokee Indians
Cherokee women
Genre/Form autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
History
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Kilcup, Karen L
ISBN 9780813037097
0813037093
Other Titles Memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907