Description |
1 online resource (327 pages) |
Series |
Indians of the Southeast |
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Indians of the Southeast.
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Contents |
Introduction: A Cherokee literature of Indian nationhood -- The long and intimate connection -- The Civil War and Cherokee nationhood -- The Cherokees' peace policy -- The Okmulgee Council -- The Indian international fairs -- Demagogues, political bummers, scalawags, and railroad corporations -- This new phase of the Indian question |
Summary |
Demanding the Cherokee Nation examines nineteenth-century Cherokee political rhetoric to address an enigma in American Indian history: the contradiction between the sovereignty of Indian nations and the political weakness of Indian communities. Making use of a rich collection of petitions, appeals, newspaper editorials, and other public records, Andrew Denson describes the ways in which Cherokees represented their people and their nation to non-Indians after their forced removal to Indian Territory in the 1830s. He argues that Cherokee writings on nationhood document a decades-long effort by tribal leaders to find a new model for American Indian relations in which Indian nations could coexist with a modernizing United States |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Cherokee Indians -- Government relations.
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Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government
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Self-determination, National -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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Cherokee Indians -- Government relations
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Cherokee Indians -- Politics and government
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Politics and government
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Self-determination, National
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
Cherokee Nation -- History -- 19th century
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United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century
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United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140422
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Subject |
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2004014196 |
ISBN |
080320471X |
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9780803204713 |
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9786610374366 |
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6610374368 |
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