Title: Separate peoples, one land : the minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee frontier /
Authors: Cumfer, Cynthia
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life Tennessee; Acculturation Tennessee History.; Nationalism Tennessee History.; Cherokee Indians Tennessee History.; Slaves Tennessee History.; Free African Americans Tennessee History.; White people Tennessee History.; European Americans Tennessee History.; Tennessee Race relations History; Tennessee Race relations History
Contents: Kinship and nationhood : the construction of relationship between Cherokees and settlers, 1768-1788 -- Ungrateful brothers and an uncivilized nation : the Cherokees and settlers reconceive their relationship, 1776-1796 -- Fictive father and Federalism : Cherokees, Tennesseans, and the United States, 1796-1810 -- "The name of my nation is Cherokee" : the reformulation of Cherokee identity -- "The nigger-trader bought me" : African American community -- "A never-failing resource in the benevolence of society" : sociability and family in the Euro-American community -- "The protection of civil government" : governance in the Euro-American community -- "The best security of rising greatness" : economic relations in the Euro-American community.