 | Emmet Starr - Cherokee Indians - 1922 - 690 pages
...those engagements. Menaced by a great danger, they exercise the inalienable right of self defense, and declare themselves a free people, independent...America, and at war with them by their own act. Obeying tha dictates of prudence and providing for the general safety and welfare, confident of the rectitude... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - History - 1986 - 442 pages
...independence, written by Pike, that stated the reasons for joining the Confederacy and declared the Cherokees a "free people, independent of the Northern States...of America and at war with them by their own act." The Confederacy successfully recruited and organized military units among the Indians, but this could... | |
 | Francis Paul Prucha - History - 1995 - 1402 pages
...independence, written by Pike, that stated the reasons for joining the Confederacy and declared the Cherokees a "free people, independent of the Northern States of America and at war with them by their own act."21 WAR IN THE INDIAN TERRITORY The deep concern of the Confederacy to sign treaties with the tribes... | |
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Menaced by a great danger, they exercise the inalienable right of self-defense, and declare themselves a free people, independent of the Northern States of America, and at war with them by their own act. Obeying the dictates of prudence and providing... 