Trail of Broken Promises
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Caleb Pirtle III. Trail of Broken Promises
Prologue
Part I: Vanguard to the West
Chapter 1: The Homes of Their Fathers
Chapter 2: Out of the Fog
Chapter 3: Keepers of the Swamplands
Chapter 4: Hunters of the Southern Woodlands
Chapter 5: The Rebellious Ones
Chapter 6: Battle With the Devil
Chapter 7: Play Ball!
Chapter 8: Cures From the Mother Earth
Chapter 9: Brooms and Black Feathers
Part II: The Proud and the Dispossessed
Chapter 10: The Coming Storm
Chapter 11: Land of Lost Souls
Chapter 12: An Eye for An Eye
Chapter 13: A Gathering of Warriors
Chapter 14: The Magic of the “Talking Leaves”
Chapter 15: Digging for Shade
Chapter 16: Pocahontas of the Indian Territory
Part III: The Homeland Lost
Chapter 17: The Betrayed
Chapter 18: The Law That Broke Hearts
Chapter 19: A People Robbed of Their Rights
Chapter 20: Creeks Set the Law Straight
Chapter 21: The Land --“Our Life and Breath”
Chapter 22: We Are Not Strangers
Chapter 23: A Losing Battle
Chapter 24: Ashes in the Dust and Sand
Part IV: Wailing in the Wind
Chapter 25: The Exodus
Chapter 26: Smallpox and Damaged Pork
Chapter 27: The Last Stragglers
Part V: Land of Promise
Chapter 28: An Awakening Frontier
Chapter 29: Finding a New Home
Chapter 30: The Chain of Defense
Chapter 31: Paying the Debts
Chapter 32: From Out of the Swamps
Chapter 33: A Thorn of War
Chapter 34: A Peace in Mourning
Chapter 35: A Woeful State of Barbarism
Chapter 36: Cherokee Journey to the Hanging Tree
Part VI: Blackboards and Bibles
Chapter 37: Lessons from the Black Coats
Chapter 38: The Ancient Lessons
Chapter 39: A Lack of Laborers
Chapter 40: Food for the Table
Chapter 41: To Pray for the Heathen
Part VII: Quenching the Thirst for Learning
Chapter 42: Missions on the Prairie
Chapter 43: From Buckskin to Blue Jeans
Part VIII: A Lust for Gold
Chapter 44: The Mad Rush for Riches
Chapter 45: Indians on the Gold Trail
Chapter 46: High Hopes and Hard Nights
Chapter 47: Gold in Otter Creek
Epilogue
Bibliography
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THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES – the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole – rose to power on the land of their fathers, atop great smoky mountains, deep within vast timbered forests, lost among the mangroves, palmettos, and rivers of grass.
They were strong and proud, hunters who had become farmers. Many fine plantations were firmly planted on the land they called home, and slaves picked their cotton in the fields.
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The chain of friendship was made with cheap metal, and even cheaper words. It had been molded with ambition and linked with lies.
Congress, in 1789, was still holding fast to the treaty, promising that “the utmost good faith shall always be observed towards the Indians; their land and property shall never be taken from them without their consent; and in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars.” Congress had not yet felt the growing pains of a nation, stuffed with too many people and even more greed. The Chickamaugans loomed as its only stumbling block in the way of peace. These renegade Cherokees had been the last holdouts, the last warriors to defy American rule. But even they buckled under the military muscle of a new nation, leaving fifty of their braves dead and scalped upon the highland slopes of North Georgia and Tennessee. At the 1794 conference in Telico, Little Turkey, who had followed Old Tassel to the helm of the Cherokees, rose, proud that his people would now be able “to live so that we might have gray hairs in our head.” He stood and said, “Our tears are wiped away, and we rejoice in the prospect of our future welfare, under the protection of Congress.”
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