Blood moon: an American epic of war and splendor in the Cherokee Nation

Part one. Paradise lost: A birth on the Hiwassee ; Contact ; The bloody land ; The first kill ; Foreign relations ; A birth on the Coosa ; A death for a death ; Prosperity ; Into the wild

Part two. The descent into Hell: The perils of peace ; Deliverance ; A nation of verbs ; "Barks on barks obliquely laid" ; Gold fever ; The imprisonment of Reverend Samuel Worcester ; The terrible truth ; "A consummate act of treachery" ; Specters in the shadows ; A final reckoning ; Our strength is our redeemer

Part three. Vengeance be mine: Honey Creek ; The business of removal ; Exodus ; "The Cherokee are a complaining people" ; "They can leave us" ; Indian justice ; $1,094,765 ; The defense ; "The groves of the Brandywine"

Part four. Fateful lightning: Slaves to fortune ; "As brothers live, brothers die" ; Civil War ; The end ; "I shall see them no more on Earth" ; What remained

Epilogue: On politics.