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Bezig met laden... Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation (First Peoples: New Directions in Indigenous Studies)door Rose Stremlau
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Stremlau has produced a well-researched and documented study on the Cherokee and their family relationships. She explains how the government tried to make the Cherokee conform to the American notion of a family rather than the Cherokee model. She explained how the allotments given in Indian Territory were awarded to males when it would have made more sense to award them to the female based on Cherokee culture. She showed inconsistencies in the Dawes Rolls and explained how there was not a uniform method of determining blood percentage. It's a fascinating read, and I'll be writing a longer review for an upcoming issue of Tennessee Libraries since the copy was provided by the journal for review. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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