Theda Perdue
Biographic Data
| ID | 480409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theda Perdue |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theda |
| FAMILY NAME | Perdue |
| SIGNATURE | PERDUE T |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8781-854X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 76 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
U.S. Jails and fatal drug overdoses
Opioid-related fatalities in U.S. correctional facilities present a critical criminal justice and health challenge. This study examines predictors of drug- and opioid-related deaths among incarcerated individuals nationwide. In the main models, younger age increases overdose risk, females face higher odds of drug-related death than males, and shorter stays are linked to all drug-related deaths, while longer stays are associated with opioid fatali…
A blended immersion course
This paper presents a specialization blended immersion course in social work with military, veterans, and their families that includes a 3-unit elective course for Master of Social Work (MSW) students incorporating a virtual (i.e. synchronous) class component and an eight-day visit to the Washington DC area. Data collection from over 60 students over a four-year period was collected, and mixed methods analysis indicated success in knowledge acqui…
Correlates of Current Methamphetamine Use and Opioid Co-Use Among Latina Women in a Low-Income Community
Using data from Proyecto SALTO, a 15-year follow-up study of a cohort of Mexican American women in a low-income community in San Antonio, Texas, this study examines emerging patterns of current methamphetamine (MA) use, including opioid co-use, among this understudied population. A bivariate analysis compared individuals with and without current MA use and identified sociodemographic correlates and co-occurring mental health and substance use. A …
Characterizing prescription opioid, heroin, and fentanyl initiation trajectories
Crack cocaine use among aging Mexican American men with heroin use histories
Background Knowledge about the motivations for crack cocaine use and the long-term effects among people who inject heroin is limited. This study aims to understand motivations associated with this co-use drug pattern among aging men entrenched in established intergenerational heroin subcultures. Methods: A sample of 60 men with diverse injecting heroin use histories was recruited from low-income Mexican American urban communities for semi-structu…
Risk Factors for Domestic Child Sex Trafficking in the United States
Despite increased effort to respond to human trafficking at national and state levels, very little empirical research has been conducted on domestic child sex trafficking. This study retrospectively examines associations between multiple risk factors and domestic child sex trafficking (i.e., entry into the commercial sex industry under the age of 18) in a sample of individuals aged 16 and older currently involved in the commercial sex industry ( …
An Ecological Analysis of Risk Factors for Runaway Behavior among Individuals Exposed to Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Searching for the Bright Path
Searching For the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to RemovaL By James Taylor Carson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999. Pp. xvi, 185. Illustrations, index. $40.00.) James Taylor Carson's Searching for the Bright Path is, as the subtitle of the book suggests, a straightforward history of the Choctaws from before European contact to the removal period. As the latest addition to the University of Nebraska Press's Ind…
Native American DNA
Journal Article Native American dna: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Get access Kim Tallbear. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. xii, 252 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 1013–1014, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau638 Published: 01 December 2014
Offenders Who Are Mothers with and without Experience in Prostitution
North American Indians
North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction describes how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers travelled over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska from 25,000 to 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. When Europeans arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already there. There was a great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different langua…
A Reply to Saunt Et Al
Research Article| April 01 2006 A Reply to Saunt Et Al. Theda Perdue Theda Perdue University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 406. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-53-2-406 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Theda Perdue; A Reply to Saunt Et Al.. Ethnohistory 1 April 2006; 53 (2): 406. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-53…
The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast
Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral phases: the complex and elaborate societies that emerged and flourished in the Pre-Columbian period; the triple curse of disease, economic dependency, and political insta…
"Mixed Blood" Indians
An enliglitening look at issues of race, blood, and kinship in the American South from a Native perspective; On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men - including traders, soldiers, and government agents - sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions were known by whites as half-breeds. The Indian societies into which they were born, however, had no corresponding concepts of race or Moreov…
Race and Culture
Research Article| October 01 2004 Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South Theda Perdue Theda Perdue Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 701–723. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-4-701 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Mixed Blood Indians
"Mixed Blood" Indians
The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast
The Indian Slave Trade
The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717. By Alan Gallay. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 444. $35.00, cloth; $18.00, paper.) Alan Gallay provides the first detailed examination of the Indian slave trade in the colonial American South. The trade developed from indigenous slaving practices after European settlers arrived and demanded inexpensive labor. Gallay carefully reconstructs…
Blood Politics
Journal Article Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Get access Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. By Sturm Circe. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xv + 249 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00, £35.00, cloth; $19.95, £13.95, paper.) Theda Perdue Theda Perdue University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by th…
Sifters
Journal Article Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives Get access Sifters: Native American Women’s Lives. Edited by Perdue Theda. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Notes, bibliography, index, xii + 260 pp. $19.95, paper.) Clara Sue Kidwell Clara Sue Kidwell University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 3, Autumn 2002, Pages 358–359, https://do…
Sifters
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women’s history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries. Each one recounts the experiences of women from vastly different cultural traditions…
Sifters
In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries. Each one recounts the experiences of women from vastly different cultural traditions…
Women of the Dawn (review)
Reviewed by: Women of the Dawn Theda Perdue (bio) Bunny McBride . Women of the Dawn. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999. 152 pp. ISBN 0-8032-3209-8, $22.00. In Women of the Dawn, Bunny McBride grapples with the problem that confronts most biographers of Native women--the paucity of sources. Native oral tradition did not normally focus on the lives of individuals, and especially of Native women, whose values centered on community welfare rather [End P…
Cherokee Women
Cherokee Women
Theda Perdue examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. While building on the research of earlier historians, she develops a uniquely complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, arguing that Cherokee conceptions of gender persisted long after contact. Maintaining traditional gender roles actually allowed Cherokee women and men …
Native American DNA
Journal Article Native American dna: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science Get access Kim Tallbear. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013. xii, 252 pp. Cloth, $75.00. Paper, $25.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 3, December 2014, Pages 1013–1014, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau638 Published: 01 December 2014
Cherokees in Transition
The Cherokee Removal
Rising from the Ashes
The Cherokee Phoenix is a widely used source for early 19th century Cherokee ethnohistory. An analysis of the newspaper and its content, contributors, and circulation reveals, however, that scholars should be cautious in their use of the publication for ethnological information because it does not give an accurate picture of Cherokee society nor did the contents reach and affect most Cherokee people
Race and Culture
Research Article| October 01 2004 Race and Culture: Writing the Ethnohistory of the Early South Theda Perdue Theda Perdue Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2004) 51 (4): 701–723. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-51-4-701 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Sea…
Southern Women
Journal Article Southern Women: Histories and Identities. Ed. by Virginia Bernhard, Betty Brandon, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and Theda Perdue. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992. viii, 203 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-8262-0868-1.) Get access Victoria Bynum Victoria Bynum Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 1, June…
Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears
One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1839, the United States forced the Cherokee Nation west of the Mississippi River to what later would become the state of Oklahoma. The Cherokees primarily occupied territory in the Southeast that included north Georgia, northeastern Alabama, southeastern Tennessee, and southwestern North Carolina. In the three decades preceding removal, they experienced a cultural transformation. Relinquishing ancient beliefs a…
Clan and Court
Cherokee Women
With My Own Eyes
Bettelyoun's stories raise important questions about other cultures and particularly oral cultures: whose voice is heard, whose truth counts, and what is true and false about the history of the American West...Bettelyoun's stories allow readers to hear the voice of a person moving back and forth between several cultures and truths. An important addition to history' - Choice. 'An unmatched perspective on the struggle of the Lakota against the whit…
The Cherokee Removal
Journal Article The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents Get access The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents. Edited by Perdue Theda Green Michael D.. (Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martins Press, 1995. xiii + 185 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, index. $35.00, cloth; $6.50, paper.) Paul Otto Paul Otto Dordt College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume…
Cherokee Editor
This volume collects most of the writings published by the accomplished Cherokee leader Elias Boudinot (1804?-1839). Founding editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, Boudinot is the most ambiguous and puzzling figure in Cherokee history. Although he first struggled against the removal of his people from their native Southeast, Boudinot later reversed his position and signed the Treaty of New Echota, an action that cost him his life. Together with Theda P…
Cherokee Editor
Cherokee Editor
North American Indians
North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction describes how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers travelled over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska from 25,000 to 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. When Europeans arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already there. There was a great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different langua…
A Reply to Saunt Et Al
Research Article| April 01 2006 A Reply to Saunt Et Al. Theda Perdue Theda Perdue University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2006) 53 (2): 406. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-53-2-406 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Theda Perdue; A Reply to Saunt Et Al.. Ethnohistory 1 April 2006; 53 (2): 406. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-53…
Cherokee Women
Atlas of American Indian Affairs
An indispensable reference work. If one did not have this volume, a shelf of other atlases and statistical books would be necessary. Father Prucha is meticulous scholar and a master of clear and concise prose' - Donald J. Berthrong, Purdue University. 109 maps in this comprehensive atlas provide a much-needed visual and spatial dimension to narrative accounts of U.S. Indian policy. Francis Paul Prucha presents in cartographic form essential histo…
Rising from the Ashes
The Cherokee Phoenix is a widely used source for early 19th century Cherokee ethnohistory. An analysis of the newspaper and its content, contributors, and circulation reveals, however, that scholars should be cautious in their use of the publication for ethnological information because it does not give an accurate picture of Cherokee society nor did the contents reach and affect most Cherokee people
The Problem of Slavery in Cherokee Culture
Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866
John Ross
Journal Article John Ross: Cherokee Chief. By Gary E. Moulton. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1978. ix + 282 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.00.) Get access Theda Perdue Theda Perdue Western Carolina University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Page 149, https://doi.org/10.2307/1894725 Published: 01 June 1979
Cherokees in Transition
Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866
The Comparative Study of Slavery
Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866
The Cherokee Freedmen
Blacks and Indians
Nations Remembered
Journal Article Nations Remembered: An Oral History of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1865–1907 Get access Nations Remembered: An Oral History of the Five Civilized Tribes, 1865–1907. By Perdue Theda. (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1980. xxiv + 221 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $23.95.) Thomas Burnell Colbert Thomas Burnell Colbert Oklahoma State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goo…
Nations Remembered
Nations Remembered is a collection of excerpts from oral interviews with members of the Five Civilized Tribes, and others, between the Civil War years and Oklahoma statehood in 1907.The interviews were originally conducted in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration and later selected and annotated by Theda Perdue.The collection provides a candid study of acculturation through the reflections of southeastern Native Americans in the years ju…
Nations Remembered
Nations Remembered is a collection of excerpts from oral interviews with members of the Five Civilized Tribes, and others, between the Civil War years and Oklahoma statehood in 1907.The interviews were originally conducted in the 1930s by the Works Progress Administration and later selected and annotated by Theda Perdue.The collection provides a candid study of acculturation through the reflections of southeastern Native Americans in the years ju…
Cherokee Editor
The Only Land They Knew
Cherokee Editor
This volume collects most of the writings published by the accomplished Cherokee leader Elias Boudinot (1804?-1839). Founding editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, Boudinot is the most ambiguous and puzzling figure in Cherokee history. Although he first struggled against the removal of his people from their native Southeast, Boudinot later reversed his position and signed the Treaty of New Echota, an action that cost him his life. Together with Theda P…
Cherokee Editor
Cherokees and Missionaries, 1789-1839
Native American Periodicals and Newspapers, 1828-1982
Cherokee Editor
Cherokee Renascence in the New Republic
Cherokee Women and the Trail of Tears
One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1839, the United States forced the Cherokee Nation west of the Mississippi River to what later would become the state of Oklahoma. The Cherokees primarily occupied territory in the Southeast that included north Georgia, northeastern Alabama, southeastern Tennessee, and southwestern North Carolina. In the three decades preceding removal, they experienced a cultural transformation. Relinquishing ancient beliefs a…
The Indians' New World
Atlas of American Indian Affairs
An indispensable reference work. If one did not have this volume, a shelf of other atlases and statistical books would be necessary. Father Prucha is meticulous scholar and a master of clear and concise prose' - Donald J. Berthrong, Purdue University. 109 maps in this comprehensive atlas provide a much-needed visual and spatial dimension to narrative accounts of U.S. Indian policy. Francis Paul Prucha presents in cartographic form essential histo…
Champions of the Cherokees
Journal Article Champions of the Cherokees: Evan and John B. Jones. By William G. McLoughlin. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. xiv + 498 pp. $39.50.) Get access Theda Perdue Theda Perdue University of Kentucky Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 1, June 1991, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078146 Published: 01 June 1991
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