Fire and the Spirits

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.

First sentence: TOWARD the close of the third decade of the nineteenth century, when the Cherokee Nation began to publish a newspaper, the name Phoenix was selected for the masthead.

Year

1975

Language

English

Publisher

University of Oklahoma Press

Editions

3

Pages

260

ISBN

9780806116198

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