"[Historical Sketch of the Cherokee is] regarded as sound, scholarly work... [on a] leading Indian tribe and... esteemed as [a] basic source... on Cherokee history."

--Arrell Morgan Gibson, The Journal of Southern History

"The illustrious James Mooney prepared his "Historical Sketch of the Cherokee" as an extended introduction to his "Myths of the Cherokee," which together formed part 1 of the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1900). It is probable that Mooney saw the two pieces as interrelated, since not only are historical narratives included in the "Myths," but also a wealth of historical and ethnological data are buried in extensive footnotes; the full volume also contains a Cherokee-English and English-Cherokee word list invaluable to the ethnohistorian researching historical personages, tribal synonymy, town and place names... Mooney's "Historical Sketch" can stand by itself and even after 75 years still provides the best capsule history of the Cherokees now available... Mooney possessed an extraordinary command of the documentary sources available in his day, a capacity to utilize the ethno-ethnohistory provided by his informants, a sound grasp of Cherokee ethnography and language based on intensive and empathetic fieldwork, plus an infectious enthusiasm that pervades his vigorous prose."

--Raymond D. Fogelson, Ethnohistory

Review of two books:

"Charles Royce's and James Mooney's books are reprinted from the original Bureau of American Ethnology works, which respectively appeared in the Fifth and Nineteenth Annual Reports... Both works are classics in the field. Royce provides a detailed chronology of the treaties between the government and the Cherokees between 1785 and 1868. Mooney, who lived with the Cherokees between 1887 and 1900, boldly sketches the principal lines of their complex history from pre-European times to 1900. Since Royce and Mooney produced those reports, much has been written on the Cherokees, their neighbors, their achievements, and their conquest and survival. All the later writers have built on the clarity and perception of those two great historians."

--Karl H. Schlesier, American Anthropologist

"[Historical Sketch of the Cherokee is] regarded as sound, scholarly work... [on a] leading Indian tribe and... esteemed as [a] basic source... on Cherokee history."

--Arrell Morgan Gibson, The Journal of Southern History

"The illustrious James Mooney prepared his "Historical Sketch of the Cherokee" as an extended introduction to his "Myths of the Cherokee," which together formed part 1 of the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1900). It is probable that Mooney saw the two pieces as interrelated, since not only are historical narratives included in the "Myths," but also a wealth of historical and ethnological data are buried in extensive footnotes; the full volume also contains a Cherokee-English and English-Cherokee word list invaluable to the ethnohistorian researching historical personages, tribal synonymy, town and place names... Mooney's "Historical Sketch" can stand by itself and even after 75 years still provides the best capsule history of the Cherokees now available... Mooney possessed an extraordinary command of the documentary sources available in his day, a capacity to utilize the ethno-ethnohistory provided by his informants, a sound grasp of Cherokee ethnography and language based on intensive and empathetic fieldwork, plus an infectious enthusiasm that pervades his vigorous prose."

--Raymond D. Fogelson, Ethnohistory

Review of two books:

"Charles Royce's and James Mooney's books are reprinted from the original Bureau of American Ethnology works, which respectively appeared in the Fifth and Nineteenth Annual Reports... Both works are classics in the field. Royce provides a detailed chronology of the treaties between the government and the Cherokees between 1785 and 1868. Mooney, who lived with the Cherokees between 1887 and 1900, boldly sketches the principal lines of their complex history from pre-European times to 1900. Since Royce and Mooney produced those reports, much has been written on the Cherokees, their neighbors, their achievements, and their conquest and survival. All the later writers have built on the clarity and perception of those two great historians."

--Karl H. Schlesier, American Anthropologist

-[Historical Sketch of the Cherokee is] regarded as sound, scholarly work... [on a] leading Indian tribe and... esteemed as [a] basic source... on Cherokee history.-

--Arrell Morgan Gibson, The Journal of Southern History

-The illustrious James Mooney prepared his -Historical Sketch of the Cherokee- as an extended introduction to his -Myths of the Cherokee,- which together formed part 1 of the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1900). It is probable that Mooney saw the two pieces as interrelated, since not only are historical narratives included in the -Myths,- but also a wealth of historical and ethnological data are buried in extensive footnotes; the full volume also contains a Cherokee-English and English-Cherokee word list invaluable to the ethnohistorian researching historical personages, tribal synonymy, town and place names... Mooney's -Historical Sketch- can stand by itself and even after 75 years still provides the best capsule history of the Cherokees now available... Mooney possessed an extraordinary command of the documentary sources available in his day, a capacity to utilize the ethno-ethnohistory provided by his informants, a sound grasp of Cherokee ethnography and language based on intensive and empathetic fieldwork, plus an infectious enthusiasm that pervades his vigorous prose.-

--Raymond D. Fogelson, Ethnohistory

Review of two books:

-Charles Royce's and James Mooney's books are reprinted from the original Bureau of American Ethnology works, which respectively appeared in the Fifth and Nineteenth Annual Reports... Both works are classics in the field. Royce provides a detailed chronology of the treaties between the government and the Cherokees between 1785 and 1868. Mooney, who lived with the Cherokees between 1887 and 1900, boldly sketches the principal lines of their complex history from pre-European times to 1900. Since Royce and Mooney produced those reports, much has been written on the Cherokees, their neighbors, their achievements, and their conquest and survival. All the later writers have built on the clarity and perception of those two great historians.-

--Karl H. Schlesier, American Anthropologist