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296 years after his ancestor negotiated a treaty with the British Crown and was declared Emperor of the Cherokee, this novel arrives weeks after Nikwasi Mound was returned to Cherokee stewardship. The author attended the inaugural Cherokee Studies Summit at Western Carolina University and stood on the mound where the ceremony was held the, same ground where the story begins and ends.
CULLOWHEE, N.C. - WisconsinEagle -- Emperor of the Cherokee, a 185,000-word literary historical novel by Prof. Stephen E. Dinehart IV, enters publication on April 3, 2026, the 296th anniversary of the ceremony at Nikwasi in which a Cherokee war leader was declared Emperor of the Cherokee Nation. The author is a direct descendant of that man.
In the weeks surrounding publication, nine events have aligned that together make this more than a book release. A soundtrack dropped on the anniversary of the day a Scottish baronet rode into Cherokee territory with no authority and a plan nobody had sanctioned. A historic mound was returned to Cherokee stewardship. The inaugural Cherokee Studies Summit at Western Carolina University convened. The author stood on the sacred ground where his ancestor was crowned. And on April 3, 2026, the novel enters the record.
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Dinehart attended the Summit, met with leaders of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians including members of the Cherokee Language Program and the Noquisi Initiative, and visited the mound sites at Wataga, Cowee, and Noquisi. Copies of the novel have been placed with EBCI tribal leaders, language program holders, and the region's leading Cherokee archaeologists. Emperor of the Cherokee is an act of ancestral reclamation, researched across decades, rooted in primary historical sources, and offered in the spirit of the Noquisi Initiative's mission to restore and honor Cherokee cultural heritage.
The novel spans 1687 to 2026, tracing Moytoy of Tellico from his birth at Itsa'sa, the Cherokee Mother Town, through his death in 1741 and the 296 years of consequence that follow. It climaxes in 1979, when the TVA's Tellico Dam floods the Cherokee Overhill towns along the Little Tennessee River, submerging Moytoy's grave beneath sixty feet of reservoir water. His burial site at Talikwa was never excavated before the water came. He is still there. But the story does not end there. The novel's final movement returns to Noquisi / Nikwasi, the mound that survived, where the record of the people continues beyond the flood, and in Feburary of this year it was returned to the Cherokee.
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Emperor of the Cherokee is available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions through Amazon and https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQNJFXXQ
Full press kit, review copies, and interview requests: EmperorOfTheCherokee.com/press.
The reservoir was not the end. The story continues.
In the weeks surrounding publication, nine events have aligned that together make this more than a book release. A soundtrack dropped on the anniversary of the day a Scottish baronet rode into Cherokee territory with no authority and a plan nobody had sanctioned. A historic mound was returned to Cherokee stewardship. The inaugural Cherokee Studies Summit at Western Carolina University convened. The author stood on the sacred ground where his ancestor was crowned. And on April 3, 2026, the novel enters the record.
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Dinehart attended the Summit, met with leaders of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians including members of the Cherokee Language Program and the Noquisi Initiative, and visited the mound sites at Wataga, Cowee, and Noquisi. Copies of the novel have been placed with EBCI tribal leaders, language program holders, and the region's leading Cherokee archaeologists. Emperor of the Cherokee is an act of ancestral reclamation, researched across decades, rooted in primary historical sources, and offered in the spirit of the Noquisi Initiative's mission to restore and honor Cherokee cultural heritage.
The novel spans 1687 to 2026, tracing Moytoy of Tellico from his birth at Itsa'sa, the Cherokee Mother Town, through his death in 1741 and the 296 years of consequence that follow. It climaxes in 1979, when the TVA's Tellico Dam floods the Cherokee Overhill towns along the Little Tennessee River, submerging Moytoy's grave beneath sixty feet of reservoir water. His burial site at Talikwa was never excavated before the water came. He is still there. But the story does not end there. The novel's final movement returns to Noquisi / Nikwasi, the mound that survived, where the record of the people continues beyond the flood, and in Feburary of this year it was returned to the Cherokee.
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Emperor of the Cherokee is available in Kindle, paperback, and hardcover editions through Amazon and https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GQNJFXXQ
Full press kit, review copies, and interview requests: EmperorOfTheCherokee.com/press.
The reservoir was not the end. The story continues.
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