Demanding the Cherokee Nation
Andrew Denson · 2004
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"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.
Book details
- Year
- 2004
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press
- Editions
- 2
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780803217263
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