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Demanding The Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy And American Culture, 18301900 (Indians Of The Southeast),Used
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Demanding the Cherokee Nation examines nineteenthcentury 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 nonIndians after their forced removal to Indian Territory in the 1830s. He argues that Cherokee writings on nationhood document a decadeslong effort by tribal leaders to find a new model for American Indian relations in which Indian nations could coexist with a modernizing United States.Most nonNatives in the nineteenth century assumed that American development and progress necessitated the end of tribal autonomy, that at best the Indian nation was a transitional state for Native people on the way to assimilation. As Denson shows, however, Cherokee leaders found a variety of ways in which the Indian nation, as they defined it, belonged in the modern world. Tribal leaders responded to developments in the United States and adapted their defense of Indian autonomy to the great changes transforming American life in the middle and late nineteenth century. In particular, Cherokees in several ways found new justification for Indian nationhood in American industrialization.
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