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Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation

Name: Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation
Brand: University of North Carolina Press
SKU: 9780807872048
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Contributors:

Rose Stremlau

Publisher:

University of North Carolina Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

History, Social Science

Book Subcategory:

United States, Ethnic Studies

Book Topic:

19th Century, American, State & Local

Series:

First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies

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Release Date:

2011-09-26

ISBN 13:

9780807872048

Weight:

1.08 lbs

Size:

9.23 x 6.35 x 0.81 inches

Pages:

336

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During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. In Sustaining the Cherokee Family, Rose Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within individual families and communities in modern-day northeastern Oklahoma.

Emphasizing Cherokee agency, Stremlau reveals that Cherokee families' organization, cultural values, and social and economic practices allowed them to adapt to private land ownership by incorporating elements of the new system into existing domestic and community-based economies. Drawing on evidence from a range of sources, including Cherokee and United States censuses, federal and tribal records, local newspapers, maps, county probate records, family histories, and contemporary oral histories, Stremlau demonstrates that Cherokee management of land perpetuated the values and behaviors associated with their sense of kinship, therefore uniting extended families. And, although the loss of access to land and communal resources slowly impoverished the region, it reinforced the Cherokees' interdependence. Stremlau argues that the persistence of extended family bonds allowed indigenous communities to retain a collective focus and resist aspects of federal assimilation policy during a period of great social upheaval.

About the Author
Stremlau, Rose: - Rose Stremlau is assistant professor of history and American Indian studies at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

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