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Demanding the Cherokee Nation - Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900 (Hardcover, New)
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Demanding the Cherokee Nation - Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900 (Hardcover, New)
Series: Indians of the Southeast
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Demanding the Cherokee Nation examines nineteenth-century Cherokee
political rhetoric in reassessing an enigma in American Indian
history: the contradiction between the sovereignty of Indian
nations and the political weakness of Indian communities. Drawing
from 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, and that at best the Indian nation was a
transitional state for Native people on the path to assimilation.
As Denson shows, however, Cherokee leaders articulated 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, notably also providing cogent new justification
for Indian nationhood within the context of emergent American
industrialization.
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