Tennessee's Indian Peoples: From White Contact to Removal, 1540-1840

by Ronald N. Satz

Book Overview

Hernando De Soto's invasion of Indian lands in 1540 marked the onslaught of great change in the lives of Tennessee's Native Americans. Although these first Tennesseans boasted a cultural heritage of thousands of years, only three centuries of contact with the white man elapsed before their population was decimated and the remnants driven out. The Indians were a settled people when de Soto visited, not the savage or exotic woods creatures so often...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870492314
• ISBN13: 9780870492310
• Release Date: December 1979
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"