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

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Label

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

Title remainder

kinship and the allotment of an indigenous nation

Statement of responsibility

Rose Stremlau

Creator

• Stremlau, Rose

Subject

• Allotment of land -- Government policy -- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
• Cherokee Indians -- Cultural assimilation
• Cherokee Indians -- Kinship
• Cherokee Indians -- Land tenure
• Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma -- History
• Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma -- Social conditions
• Electronic books
• United States -- Race relations
• United States -- Social policy

Genre

• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• First peoples (2010)
• hoopla (Digital media service)

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

976.6004/97557

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

First peoples : new directions in indigenous studies

Target audience

adult