"Rather than concentrating on the generational or class divisions that other historians have used to explain factionalism among nineteenth-century Cherokees, for example, Abram calls attention to the experiences of the warrior-headmen and the impact of war on the competing visions of the future they developed for their people. Consequently, Abrams work provides a perspective that will supplement Joel W. Martin's Sacred Revolt: The Muskogees' Struggle for a New World, Gregory Evans Dowd's A Spirited Resistance: The North American Indian Struggle for Unity, 1745–1815, and other studies of the Creek conflict."
—Journal of Southern History
"Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War [is] a tightly argued monograph that begins in the lead-up to the Creek War with a fascinating discussion of the importance of warfare to Cherokee men and ends with the political fallout from the Creek War. . . . Abram employs a formidable array of methodologies—from ethnography to new social history—to make a case for the Creek War and its importance for the fate of the Cherokee Nation. . . . Abram has written a highly readable and compelling book that draws on a number of methodological approaches to craft a book that . . . makes a bold argument and is a welcome addition to Cherokee studies."
—H-AmIndian, a division of H-Net, Humanities and Social Sciences Online
“Abram’s Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War reveals how Cherokee military contributions in the Creek War served as a microcosm of changes in the larger Cherokee society and its leadership. Abram skillfully traces the involvement of the Cherokees in the Creek War, the ways in which their constructions of masculinity were adjusted, and the legacy of the engagement for the structure of tribal leadership. She also poignantly recounts the eventual betrayal of the Cherokees by the American government, especially Andrew Jackson, and their eventual removal from the southeast.”
—Carolyn Johnston, author of Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907 and editor of Voices of Cherokee Women
“Forging a Cherokee-American Alliance in the Creek War is the first full-length treatment of the Cherokee involvement in the Creek War of 1813–1814. Abram tells a detailed and dynamic story—one that should greatly enrich the literature of Cherokee history of the early nineteenth century. Academics and those with a general interest in Cherokee history will find Abram’s work both stimulating and rewarding.”
—Tom Kanon, author of Tennesseans at War, 1812–1815: Andrew Jackson, the Creek War, and the Battle of New Orleans
