Jamie Whitfield

Big Tiger's Granddaughters Jamie Whitfield

The Cherokee People have overcome the many struggles that the last several centuries have brought with courage and determination, through colonial wars, the Indian Removal Act, the Civil War, and the Dawes Allotment, this tenacious people have continued to thrive despite the difficulties. In this genealogical work we meet in Jaime Whitfield's ancestry many of the people well known to students of Cherokee History such as her 3rd Great Grandfather Chief Big Tiger of Whitepath's Rebellion, and ancestors Walter "Black Watt" Adair, Cabin Smith, Big Halfbreed and Tiana Foster Rogers. In this work we take a walk through two and a half centuries of Cherokee family ties and history. With the recent McGirt v. Oklahoma decision, the Cherokee Nation is once again turning a new page in its history, and this book is a celebration of the unique and powerful Cherokee heritage of an Oklahoma family, past and present. Jamie Whitfield (Cherokee/Onondaga) grew up and lives in Tulsa Oklahoma, in the Cherokee Nation. A descendent of the Tiger, Rogers, Smith, and Adair families, she has served her people as a foster mother for Cherokee children for a decade and is proud of her Native American heritage. Hodalee Sewell (Muscogee Creek/Cheraw) has been a researcher and writer on identity and Native American history for twenty years and lives and works in the Cherokee Nation.