Chief Corn Tassel by Mitzi Dorton

$22.99

 

It’s a shame the story of Corn Tassel is not already familiar to us, because, in a way, it sums up the history of that era. Trust, negotiation, greed, deception, and trying to adjust to inevitable new realities are all elements of modern life we can relate to in this broadly researched and excellently told story of our ancestors, showing us we are not so different today.

–Danny Kuhn, author, “Fezziwig, a Life” and “O Mountaineers! Noted (or Notorious) West Virginians”

 

With a researcher’s eye for detail, a storyteller’s ear for language, and an advocate’s passion for the untold and underrepresented stories of the disenfranchised, Dorton adds an invaluable narrative to the historical record of our nation’s indigenous cultures, particularly the eastern Cherokees. At a time when many of us are looking back in reflection and with regret over the devastating actions of our forebears, this necessary account of an overlooked hero immerses us in a past we must understand in order to help us come to a collective reckoning.

–Linda Lowen, New York Times essayist, Editor of the anthology, “Hopeful, Grateful, Strong.”

 

This is an exhilarating story often told in the words of a beloved Cherokee Chief, an American hero for all times, who gave his life in the struggle for peace between native Americans and early European settlers. It is history at its most exciting, beautifully written, researched and compiled by Mitzi Dorton.

–Martha Ellen Hughes, author, “Precious in His Sight,” Viking/Penguin

 

 

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Chief Corn Tassel

by Mitzi Dorton

$22.99, Full-length, paper, historical narrative

978-1-64662-888-9

2022

Mitzi Dorton is a multi-genre writer, a former postsecondary learning specialist and educator. As an adult, she often hung out in history rooms of local colleges. It was there in some antiquated books, that she found herself introduced to Chief Corn Tassel. Samuel Cole Williams, historian in William Tatham, Wataugan, complained that other than James Mooney’s description, there was “no other sketch of this able chief.” Dorton travelled to the old Cherokee towns and various treaty sites, acquainting herself further with his background. By the time she reached Chota, Chief Corn Tassel was simply the hand of an old friend felt along the path, and she wanted to share his story.

Mitzi Dorton has been published in the literary journals, Rattle and Rubbertop Review. She was part of an award-winning anthology, Rise, an Anthology of Change, with Northern Colorado Writers, which received the Colorado Book Award in this category. Her work has been featured in Proud to Be, Southeast Missiouri State University Press, Poems from the Lockdown, Willowdown Books, Cinematic Short Story Contest, 2020 Tunnel of Lost Stories, Wingless Dreamer, and others. Her manuscript was a finalist for The Totally Free Best of the Bottom Drawer Global Writing Prize competition, Black Spring Press. She now lives on a mountaintop in upstate New York, where she enjoys birds, nature and quilting stories.

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