Sustaining the Cherokee family [[electronic resource] ] : kinship and the allotment of an indigenous nation / / Rose Stremlau
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| Autore: |
Stremlau Rose
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| Titolo: |
Sustaining the Cherokee family [[electronic resource] ] : kinship and the allotment of an indigenous nation / / Rose Stremlau
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| Pubblicazione: | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (337 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 976.6004/97557 |
| Soggetto topico: | Cherokee Indians - Land tenure |
| Cherokee Indians - Cultural assimilation | |
| Cherokee Indians - Kinship | |
| Allotment of land - Government policy - Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma History |
| Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma Social conditions | |
| United States Social policy | |
| United States Race relations | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sustaining the Cherokee family |
| ISBN: | 1-4696-0274-1 |
| 0-8078-6910-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457798703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
First peoples (2010)