Cherokee America

Cherokee America is a dense ramble that starts to get a little interesting at the end. It covers life in the late 1800s in Cherokee territory. Cherokee ended up sided with the south, and thus were not treated well after the Civil War. There are blacks, whites, and half breads living in the territory. People mate across racial lines. They also have more sexual concerns than we would care to know about. A man has an illegitimate child and a another person tries to find his family. It is hard to keep everyone straight. It is even harder to care about what happens to them. Near the end, there is a murder and the US marshals come in. That can only mean bad things. I was hoping for a more historical picture of Cherokee life in general. However, this was instead a microscopic drilldown into the lives of a few characters that just happened to live in Cherokee land.