family for admission despite the fact that they came with considerable savings and family assets. .onetheless, i was curious this was the beginning of what has turned out to be an almost decade and a half long search to retrace the cherokee diaspora. it has taken me to scotland's. it has taken me two parts of england, london, manchester, back to australia and hawaii. all over north america. the cherokee people today live throughout the world. there are cherokee's who call toronto home. there are cherokee so call san francisco and los angeles home. there are cherokee's who call washington, d.c., austin, new york, home. the cherokee diaspora is in many ways a truly global diaspora. it is a product of american colonialism and it is also a product of cherokee innovation. but they cherokee determination to maintain a strong sense of their identity as cherokee people. so, that initial discovery in australia in 1965 -- a 1965 document has been driving me for the last decade and a half. to know more about the people who constituted and made the cherokee diaspora. that is what the book is about. find