Review of The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840

In her very readable and significant ethnohistorical work The Texas Cherokees, Dianna Everett resourcefully tells the story of this small and little-understood group during their twenty- year tenure in Texas. Everett argues that the Cherokees\u27 migration to, problems in, and expulsion from Texas can best be understood via their traditional yet dichotomous political structure. That is, Cherokee ideals of group consensus and harmony among individuals conflicted with the realities of factionalism; and like most writers, Everett relates that this dichotomy became detrimental only after white contact