SPECIAL EVENT:
The Cherokee Trilogy book series
Join us on Saturday, June 8th for a presentation and book signing with James A. Humphrey where he will introduce a book series based on his family's challenges during 18th-century America.
These three historical novels explore an extended, mixed-race family’s saga, led by a mystic teacher, that begins as exploitation overwhelms the Cherokee with disease, hatred, and bigotry.
Symbolized by the Waters sisters’ struggles for identity and survival, their once proud lineage questions its heritage. The Tsalagi battle each other, and the invaders, but forced relocation and Civil War injustice decimated their population.
The younger sister’s acceptance of her dual culture guides scarred survivors into a determined march forward as the sun rises in the twentieth century.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James A. Humphrey is retired with his wife of fifty years in Grapevine, Texas. By birthright, he is a certified citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
James explains, "Like painting, writing needs a stimulus. My paternal grandmother, Ella Waters, a Dawes’ Roll registrant, inspires my stories and I use her dialogue, history, culture, and language with focus and respect." This trilogy, “Cherokee Rock,” "Cherokee Rose," and Cherokee Reel" tells the poignant story of a Cherokee family's and culture's disintegration."
James is an artist and has shown his paintings at Holder Dane Gallery.