Delaware Country
Landscape, Identity, and Politics in an Oklahoma Indian Tribe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9216682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Brice Obermeyer (Emporia State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 211 |
| Pages | 181-199 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Plains Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-0447 • E-ISSN: 2052-546X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1179/pan.2009.001 |
| OpenAlex | W2331947884 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
The Delaware Tribe of Indians is the descendant organization from the main body of Delawares who were removed from their eastern homelands and eventually relocated through a series of removals to the Cherokee Nation in 1867. The Big House adherents were most opposed to the conditions surrounding removal to the Cherokee Nation while the Christian leadership was responsible for signing the removal agreement. As a consequence, the Big House families and Christian families settled in distinct locations in the Cherokee Nation and today Delaware Country is divided into two overlapping but identifiable regions that are associated with certain family lineages and rural settlements that were identified with either the Big House community or the Delaware Christian community. This essay provides a descriptive account of the divided cultural landscape of Delaware Country in order to reveal the socio-political diversity of the modern Delaware Tribe that is still divided over how to maintain Delaware sovereignty while resident in the Cherokee Nation. The families and now abandoned settlements associated with the moribund Big House and Delaware Christian churches continue to provide an ideological foundation for framing and mobilizing contemporary political positions toward the Cherokee Nation
Archaeology · Cherokee · Descendant · Ethnology · Framing (construction · Geography · Human settlement · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Tribe · American Environmental and Regional History · American History and Culture · Archaeology and Natural History · History · Law
Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation
Blood Politics
Townsite Settlement and Dispossession in the Cherokee Nation, 1866-1907
Delaware Traditions From Kansas, N ahkoman to Isaac McCoy
The Power of Kiowa Song
Shawnee! The Ceremonialism of a Native American Tribe and Its Cultural Background
A Dancing People
The Delaware Indians
Oklahoma Delaware Ceremonies, Feasts and Dances
Yuchi Ceremonial Life
Reservation Leadership and the Progressive-Traditional Dichotomy
Old Religion among the Delawares
The 1806 Purge among the Indiana Delaware
A Preliminary Sketch of Lenápe Culture
The Tribal Cherokee Population of Eastern Oklahoma
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |