Robert J. Conley

Quick reference on the several Cherokee "nations" (the Cherokee Nation, Eastern Band of Cherokees, and the United Keetooway Band), people and places and things important to each of them, individual Cherokees who have distinguished themselves, and a few white men who were closely associated with Cherokees in a positive way.

The author introduces John Little Bear, a Cherokee medicine man, and stories from those who came to him for help, and examines the history, culture, and myths of the Cherokee people.

Known as Spanish Jack, Jack Spaniard, a Chickamauga, wages war against the U.S. government, the Osage, and the Cherokee after he and his people are forced to join the Cherokee Nation following the Trail of Tears.

Wahoo Meade is a graduate student at Stanhope University and the ringleader of a small group of graduate teaching assistants in English. They are all about to graduate and are faced with bleak job prospects. The MLA Vacancies List this year, they say, is a No-Vacancies List. There seems to be no hope. Ph.D.'s are parking cars for a living. Then one day, one of the old dusty tenured professors in the English department is killed in his office when a whole wall of his books falls on him. He is not missed for several days. When the accident is at last discovered, Meade is struck by a promising thought, "Anything can happen to these eccentric old professors and nobody would think anything about it.". Meade sets about systematically studying the eccentricities of individual professors in the department and scheming their demises - thereby creating the much-coveted vacancies. All goes well until he strikes up a romance with the wife of one of the newest eccentric professors, and she begins to see through "The Meade Solution."

Young Whirlwind, a Cherokee ostracized by her people because of her Spanish ancestry, is acclaimed a heroine when she defeats them in battle. Whereupon she marries a Spaniard.