Public Indians, private Cherokees : tourism and tradition on tribal ground / Christina Taylor Beard-Moose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beard-Moose, Christina Taylor.

Series:

Contemporary American Indian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture and tourism.

Heritage tourism.

Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee Indians--Economic conditions.

History.

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians--History.

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee Indians--Industries.

Cherokee Indians--Attitudes.

Heritage tourism--Economic aspects--North Carolina.

Culture and tourism--North Carolina.

North Carolina.

Physical Description:

viii, 185 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2009]

Summary:

A major economic industry among American Indian tribes is the public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage ina wide range of tourist venues. Few do it better than the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, whose homeland is the Qualla Boundary of North Carolina. Through extensive research into the work of other scholars dating back to the late 1800s and interviews with a wide range of contemporary Cherokees Beard-Moose presents the two faces of the Cherokee people. One is the public face that populates the powwows, dramatic presentations, museums, and myriad roadside craft locations. The other is the private face, whose homecoming, Indian fair, tradition, belief system, community strength, and cultural heritage are threatened by the very activities that put food on tables. Constructing an ethnohistory of tourism and comparing the experiences of the Cherokees with the Florida Seminoles and Southwestern tribes, this work brings into sharp focus the fine line between promoting and selling Indian culture.

Contents:

Researching the obvious : tourism and the eastern Cherokee

The trail of tourism

Academic perspectives on tourism and the case of Cherokee, North Carolina

Eastern Cherokee ingenuity

Disneyfication on the boundary

Mass tourism's effects on indigenous communities.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-179) and index.

ISBN:

9780817316341

0817316345

9780817355135

0817355138

9780817381158

0817381155

OCLC:

229033121