Download or read book The Cherokees and Their Chiefs written by Stan Hoig and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this newly researched and synthesized history of the Cherokees, Hoig traces the displacement of the tribe and the Trail of Tears, the great trauma of the Civil War, the destruction of tribal autonomy, and the Cherokee people's phoenix-like rise in political and social stature during the twentieth century.