Nancy Ward
(c. 1738-1824)
Cherokee, "Beloved Woman"

"Gale Celebrates Women's History: Biographies." [Online]. Available from http://www.thomson.com/gale/whmbios.html. Internet.

"Historical Sites of the Ocoee Region." [Online]. Available from http://cyberfair.gsn.org/pchs/his_site.htm. Internet.
Includes a photograph of the Nancy Ward gravesite.
Includes a biographical sketch of Ward.

Kasee, Cynthia. "Ward, Nancy." In Native American Women: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Gretchen M. Bataille. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993.

Hatley, Thomas. "Nancy Ward: The Last Beloved Woman of the Cherokees." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 21 (1962): 354-64.

Kasee, Cynthia R. "Nancy Ward 1738(?)-1824." In Notable Native Americans, edited by Sharon Malinowski. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.

Tennessee Biographical Dictionary. New York: Somerset Publishers, 1994.


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