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.

Contemporary American Indian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee Indians--Industries.

Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee Indians--Economic conditions.

Cherokee Indians--Attitudes.

Heritage tourism--Economic aspects--North Carolina.

Heritage tourism.

Culture and tourism--North Carolina.

Culture and tourism.

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians--History.

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A major economic industry among American Indian tribes is the public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a 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 1800's, 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

Contents:

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:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

0-8173-8115-5

OCLC:

609844504