Marking Native Borders

"Details how, in the late colonial and early republic periods, the Cherokees and Chickasaws defended their permanent, inherent right to their lands in the Tennessee Country (the region drained by the Tennessee, Cumberland, and Mississippi rivers and their tributaries) by drawing clear borders around their nations and combining Indigenous ideas of communal land use with aspects of European property law. The book also describes how white settlers and speculators, in turn, revised their own strategies for expansion in response to the Cherokees' and Chickasaws' success in defending their national lands"