Eastern Cherokee fishing
By: Heidi M. Altman.
Series: Contemporary American Indian studies
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780817315146; 9780817353315
Subjects: Eastern Band of the Cherokee Nation -- History.; Cherokee Indians -- Fishing.; Cherokee Indians -- Material culture.; Traditional fishing -- North Carolina.; Traditional ecological knowledge -- North Carolina.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Cherokee history and the changing environment : effects on fish and fishing; title: Subsistence, material culture, and fishing practices; title: Cherokee traditional ecological knowledge and fishing : "there's a lot to that; you gotta know the signs"; title: Tourism, fishing, and contemporary cherokee identity : the discourse of enterprise and reserve; title: Conclusions.