Sustaining the Cherokee Family

Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID19895331
AutoresRose Stremlau (autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Páginas336
Data de publicação2011-09-26
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoSustaining the Cherokee Family (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of North Carolina Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5149/9780807869109_stremlau
OpenAlexW4205238012
Open LibraryOL24809705M
ISBN9780807869109
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas17

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. This book illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within individual families and communities in modern-day northeastern Oklahoma. Emphasizing Cherokee agency, it reveals that Cherokee families' organization, cultural values, and social and economic practices allowed them to adapt to private land ownership by incorporating elements of the new system into existing domestic and community-based economies. Drawing on evidence from a range of sources, including Cherokee and United States censuses, federal and tribal records, local newspapers, maps, county probate records, family histories, and contemporary oral histories, the book demonstrates that Cherokee management of land perpetuated the values and behaviors associated with their sense of kinship, therefore uniting extended families. Although the loss of access to land and communal resources slowly impoverished the region, it reinforced the Cherokees' interdependence. The book argues that the persistence of extended family bonds allowed indigenous communities to retain a collective focus and resist aspects of federal assimilation policy during a period of great social upheaval

Agency (philosophy) · Allotment · Archaeology · Cherokee · Geography · Government (linguistics) · Indigenous · Kinship · Political science · Probate · Social science · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Law · Allotment of land · Cherokee Indians · Cultural assimilation · Five civilized tribes · Government policy · History · Land tenure · Oklahoma · Oklahoma Cherokee Nation · race relations · Social conditions · Social policy · united states