A faithful history of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, from the period of our first intercourse with them down to the present time : the reasons and considerations which produced a separation of the tribe, at an early period, organizing a nation east and a nation west of the Mississippi River : with a full exposition of the causes which led to their subsequent division into three parties, and involved them in their present deplorable condition, and of the nature and extent of their present claims : in a condensed and readable form.