Cherokee women in crisis
Subtitle: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and allotment, 1838-1907
By: Carolyn Ross Johnston
Series: Contemporary American Indian studies
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Cherokee women -- History; Cherokee women -- Social conditions; Cherokee women -- Government relations; Trail of Tears, 1838-1839; Indians of North America -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; Indian allotments -- United States -- History
Description: "American Indian women have traditionally played vital roles in social heirarchies, including at the family, clan, and tribal levels. In the Cherokee Nation, specifically, women and men are considered equal contributors to the culture. With this study we learn that three key historical events in the 19th and early 20th centuries-removal, the Civil War, and allotment of their lands-forced a radical renegotiation of gender roles and relations in Cherokee society." -- Back cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-211) and index