Introduction / Duane H. King
The origins and development of Cherokee culture / Roy S. Dickens, Jr.
A perilous rule : the law of international homicide / John Phillip Reid
Distribution of eighteenth-century Cherokee settlements / Betty Anderson Smith
The Cherokee frontiers, the French Revolution, and William Augustus Bowles / William C. Sturtevant
Early nineteenth-century Cherokee political organization / V. Richard Persico, Jr.
Cherokee planters : the development of plantation slavery before Removal / Theda Perdue
Chaos in the Indian country : the Cherokee Nation, 1828-35 / Kenneth Penn Davis
Postremoval factionalism in the Cherokee Nation / Gerard Reed
The origin of the Eastern Cherokees as a social and political entity / Duane H. King
William Holland Thomas and the Cherokee claims / Richard W. Iobst
Observations on social change among the Eastern Cherokees / John Witthoft
New militants or resurrected state? : the Five County Northeastern Oklahoma Cherokee Organization / Albert L. Wahrhaftig and Jane Lukens-Wahrhaftig.
