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Demanding the Cherokee Nation : Indian autonomy and American culture, 1830-1900 /
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,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2004.
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| Colección: | Indians of the Southeast.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (327 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index. |
| ISBN: | 080320471X 9780803204713 9786610374366 6610374368 |