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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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Denson, Andrew
Formato: Documento de Gobierno Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004.
Colección:Indians of the Southeast.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.