Book excerpt: The story of "Nobody's Daughter" is a story of one lineage that represents the many. It gives the reasons why there are so many misunderstandings about who the Cherokee are and were from a Cherokee anthropologist. It is also the personal story of how one non-Western mind with a Cherokee descent found connection with her Cherokee roots; how one "Lost Cherokee" became found. This Cherokee story is a web of research that joins the broken and missing strands of a person and a people.