New Echota letters : contributions of Samuel A. Worcester to the Cherokee phoenix /

New Echota letters : contributions of Samuel A. Worcester to the Cherokee phoenix /

Selections from the newspaper Cherokee phoenix, 1828-33, including contributions of S.A. Worcester and the newspaper's editor, E. Boudinot.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Worcester, S. A. (Samuel Austin), 1798-1859 (Author)
Other Authors: Kilpatrick, Jack Frederick (Editor), Kilpatrick, Anna Gritts (Editor), Boudinot, Elias, -1839
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dallas : Southern Methodist University Press, [1968]
Subjects:
Cherokee Indians > Press coverage.
Cherokee language > Press coverage.
Cherokee Indians > Missions > Georgia.
Cherokee Indians.
Cherokee language.
New Town (Ga.) > History.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Samuel Worcester and the Cherokee phoenix
  • Explanation of the Sequoyah syllabary
  • Report of a hanging
  • Dialogue with Constantine Samuel Rafinesque
  • Controversey with Rev. Nicholas D. Scales
  • Analysis of a Cherokee verb-form
  • Cherokee traditions
  • Constitution of the Brainerd Book Society
  • Letter to the editor of the Charleston Observer
  • The conjugation of Cherokee verbs
  • The state of the Cherokees
  • Resolution by missionaries
  • Denial of the authorship of a communication
  • Letters from jail
  • Letter to Govenor Gilmer
  • Report of conviction
  • Letter concerning lottery wheels
  • Letters concerning release from prison
  • Apologia of Worcester and Butler.