Sustaining the Cherokee family : kinship and the allotment of an indigenous nation
by
 
Stremlau, Rose.

Title
Sustaining the Cherokee family : kinship and the allotment of an indigenous nation

Author
Stremlau, Rose.

ISBN
9780807869109
 
9781469602745

Publication Information
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2011.

Physical Description
1 online resource (xiii, 320 pages) : illustrations, map.

Series
First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies
 
First peoples (2010)

Abstract
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.

Subject Term
Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure.
 
Cherokee Indians -- Cultural assimilation.
 
Cherokee Indians -- Kinship.
 
Allotment of land -- Government policy -- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma.

Electronic Access
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807869109_stremlau


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