Sustaining the Cherokee family : kinship and the allotment of an indigenous nation / Rose Stremlau.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stremlau, Rose.

Series:

First peoples (2010)

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cherokee Indians--Land tenure.

Cherokee Indians.

Cherokee Indians--Cultural assimilation.

Cherokee Indians--Kinship.

Allotment of land--Government policy--Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma.

Allotment of land.

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma--History.

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma.

Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma--Social conditions.

United States--Social policy.

United States.

United States--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family, Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within individual families and communities in modern-day northeastern Oklahoma. Emphasizing Cherokee agency, Stremlau reveals that Cherokee families' organization, cultural values, and social and economic practices allowed them to adapt to private land ownership by incorpor

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE. Arriving; CHAPTER TWO. Belonging; CHAPTER THREE. Debating; CHAPTER FOUR. Enrolling; CHAPTER FIVE. Dividing; CHAPTER SIX. Transforming; CHAPTER SEVEN. Adapting; CHAPTER EIGHT. Sustaining; Conclusion; Afterword; Appendix: Note on Sources; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

979-88-908828-6-8

979-88-9313-310-3

1-4696-0274-1

0-8078-6910-4

OCLC:

759000839