Demanding the Cherokee Nation
Subtitle: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900 (Indians of the Southeast)
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: December 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780803217263
Subjects: American history; Indigenous peoples; United States - General; History - U.S; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies; United States; History: American; North America; Native American; History / Native American; Cherokee Nation; 19th century; Cherokee Indians; Government relations; History; Politics and government; Self-determination, National
Description: "Demanding the Cherokee Nation examines nineteenth-century Cherokee political rhetoric to address an enigma in American Indian history: the contradiction between the sovereignty of Indian nations and the political weakness of Indian communities. Making use of a rich collection of petitions, appeals, newspaper editorials, and other public records, Andrew Denson describes the ways in which Cherokees represented their people and their nation to non-Indians after their forced removal to Indian Territory in the 1830s. He argues that Cherokee writings on nationhood document a decades-long effort by tribal leaders to find a new model for American Indian relations in which Indian nations could coexist with a modernizing United States."--BOOK JACKET.