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Informationen zum Autor Andrew Denson is an associate professor of history at Western Carolina University. Klappentext 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. Most non-Natives 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. Zusammenfassung Examines 19th 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. This book describes the ways in which Cherokees represented their nation to non-Indians after their forced removal to Indian Territory. Inhaltsverzeichnis SERIES EDITORS' PREFACEACKNOWLEDGMENTSINTRODUCTION: A CHEROKEE LITERATURE OF INDIAN NATIONHOOD1. THE LONG AND INTIMATE CONNECTION2. THE CIVIL WAR AND CHEROKEE NATIONHOOD3. THE CHEROKEES' PEACE POLICY4. THE OKMULGEE COUNCIL5. THE INDIAN INTERNATIONAL FAIRS6. DEMAGOGUES, POLITICAL BUMMERS, SCALAWAGS, AND RAILROAD CORPORATIONS7. "THIS NEW PHASE OF THE INDIAN QUESTION"EPILOGUENOTESBIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX...
