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Publisher: Mike Dart
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Across four generations and a century of upheaval, UnConquered is a sweeping work of Cherokee historical fiction about the things governments tried to erase-and the people who refused to disappear.
From the final days of the Dawes Rolls to the boarding school era, wartime displacement, and federal relocation programs of the 1950s, these interconnected stories follow Cherokee families forced to navigate a world where identity could be reduced to paper, language silenced, and home taken one boundary at a time. Yet through every removal, every promise broken, and every road that carried them farther from the hills of Oklahoma, something endured.
Rich with memory, language, ceremony, and survival, UnConquered traces the lives of those who lived between worlds: children never written into the record, families uprooted for war, boys taught to abandon their mother tongue, and generations struggling to hold onto what could not be measured by government ledgers.
At once intimate and epic, UnConquered is a powerful meditation on belonging, resilience, and the enduring strength of Cherokee identity. These are stories about what was taken-but more importantly, about what could never be conquered.
Inspired by the histories and lived experiences woven throughout What Was Not Written, The Words Not Spoken, The Last Road From Greenleaf, and What Was Promised.
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