Research Catalog

Title

Demanding the Cherokee Nation : Indian autonomy and American culture, 1830-1900 / Andrew Denson.

Author

Denson, Andrew.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.

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Description

327 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Indians of the Southeast

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Indians of the Southeast.

Subject

• Cherokee Nation > History > 19th century
• Cherokee Indians > Government relations
• Cherokee Indians > Politics and government
• Self-determination, National > United States
• United States > Social conditions > 19th century
• United States > Politics and government > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-319) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

0803217269 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004014196

OCLC

• 55798023
• SCSB-11933477

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library