Separate peoples, one land
Subtitle: the minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee frontier
By: Cynthia Cumfer.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807831519; 9780807858448
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Tennessee; Acculturation -- Tennessee -- History; Nationalism -- Tennessee -- History; Cherokee Indians -- Tennessee -- History; Slaves -- Tennessee -- History; Free African Americans -- Tennessee -- History; Whites -- Tennessee -- History; European Americans -- Tennessee -- History; Tennessee -- Race relations -- History -- 18th century; Tennessee -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kinship and nationhood : the construction of relationship between Cherokees and settlers, 1768-1788; title: Ungrateful brothers and an uncivilized nation : the Cherokees and settlers reconceive their relationship, 1776-1796; title: Fictive father and Federalism : Cherokees, Tennesseans, and the United States, 1796-1810; title: "The name of my nation is Cherokee" : the reformulation of Cherokee identity; title: "The nigger-trader bought me" : African American community; title: "A never-failing resource in the benevolence of society" : sociability and family in the Euro-American community; title: "The protection of civil government" : governance in the Euro-American community; title: "The best security of rising greatness" : economic relations in the Euro-American community.