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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Cherokees"”.
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Cherokee Indian Removal: The Treaty of New Echota and General Winfield Scott.
… Indians and provided for the removal of the Cherokees from their lands in the southeastern United States. This treaty was secured by dishonest means and, despite the efforts of Chief John Ross to prevent the removal of the Cherokees from their homeland to west of the Mississippi River, the …
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The Embodiment of Citizenship: Sovereignty and Colonialism in the Cherokee Nation, 1880--1920
… law, medicine, and education---in which Cherokees and Americans articulated representational bodily images and created policy with long-lasting effects in both nations. In this period, marriage became the symbol for the union of the two nations, and images of elite Cherokee women were …
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Picturing a Nation Divided: Art, American Identity and the Crisis over Slavery
… the conversation was different, as slaveholding Cherokees claimed to be more civilized than the barbaric white settlers. In the Arkansas Traveler, Washbourne, influenced by his missionary father and his Cherokee contemporaries, presented slaveholders as civilized and those whites who opposed the …
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Legacy of Betrayal: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison of the Cherokee Removal and the Highland Clearances
… study of the removal experiences of the Cherokees of Georgia and the Sutherland Gaels in the Highlands of Scotland. Examining the effects of colonialism and cultural imperialism on indigenous populations, the following examines the ways in these peoples mediated their colonial experiences …
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Slavery, race, and nation in Indian Territory, 1830-1866
… Removal and the end of the U. S. Civil War. Cherokees, Choctaws, Creeks, Chickasaws and Seminoles moved in the nineteenth century from the kinship-based tribal political structures they had utilized for centuries to modern polities who employed the language of nation and citizenship. At the …
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Confederate Borderland, Indian Homeland: Slavery, Sovereignty, and Suffering in Indian Territory
… campaign, however, schisms with the Confederate Cherokees became apparent. In the weeks that followed, Confederate forces pursued the men, women, and children of Opothelyahola's party as they fled north across the frozen landscape for the relative safety of Kansas. The military campaign waged in …
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… examines how enslaved and formerly enslaved Afro-Cherokees, African American and Indigenous writers produced radical responses to the reorganization of their kinship networks. A primary aim of the project is to challenge the assumptions and critical frameworks that make it virtually impossible to …