The Struggle
Finger, John R. Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.
Frizzell, George E. “The Politics of Cherokee Citizenship, 1898-1930.” The North Carolina Historical Review 61, no. 2 (April 1984): 205-230. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23518752.
Citizenship
Deloria Jr, Vine and David E. Wilkins. The Legal Universe: Observations on the Foundations of American Law. Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2011.
McCool, Daniel, Susan M. Olson, and Jennifer L. Robinson. Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Rosen, Deborah A. American Indians and state law : sovereignty, race, and citizenship, 1790-1880. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2007.
Documents
Godbold, E. Stanly., and Mattie U. Russell. Confederate Colonel and Cherokee Chief: the Life of William Holland Thomas. University of Tennessee Press, 1990.
McLoughlin, William G. “Experiment in Cherokee Citizenship, 1817-1829.” American Quarterly, vol. 33, no. 1, 1981, pp. 3–25. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2712531.
Persico, V. Richard, Jr. “Early Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Political Organization: A Trouble History.” In The Cherokee Indian Nation, edited by Duane H. King, 92-109. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee, 1979.
Blackmun, Ora.“The Crack of Doom in the Mountains.” Western North Carolina: Its Mountains and Its People to 1880, Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, 1977, pp. 241–260. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1xp3mp5.21.
Key Leaders & Figures
Adams, Mikaela M. “Contests of Sovereignty: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians of North Carolina.” Who Belongs?: Race,Resources, and Tribal Citizenship in the Native South, Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 132–168.
Finger, John R. Cherokee Americans: The Eastern Band of Cherokees in the Twentieth Century. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.
Mitchell, Anne V. “Culture, History, and Development on the Qualla Boundary.” Appalachian Journal, vol. 24, no. 2, 1997, pp. 144–191. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40933835.