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Webs of Kinship - Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood (Hardcover)
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Webs of Kinship - Family in Northern Cheyenne Nationhood (Hardcover)
Series: New Directions in Native American Studies Series
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Many stories that non-Natives tell about Native people emphasize
human suffering, the inevitability of loss, and eventual
extinction, whether physical or cultural. But the stories Northern
Cheyennes tell about themselves emphasize survival, connectedness,
and commitment to land and community. In writing Webs of Kinship,
anthropologist Christina Gish Hill has worked with government
records and other historical documents, as well as the oral
testimonies of today's Northern Cheyennes, to emphasize the ties of
family, rather than the ambitions of individual leaders, as the
central impetus behind the nation's efforts to establish a
reservation in its Tongue River homeland. Hill focuses on the
people who lived alongside notable Cheyennes such as Dull Knife,
Little Wolf, Little Chief, and Two Moons to reveal the central role
of kinship in the Cheyennes' navigation of U.S. colonial policy
during removal and the early reservation period. As one of Hill's
Cheyenne correspondents reminded her, Dull Knife had a family, just
as all of us do. He and other Cheyenne leaders made decisions with
their entire extended families in mind - not just those living, but
those who came before and those yet to be born. Webs of Kinship
demonstrates that the Cheyennes used kinship ties strategically to
secure resources, escape the U.S. military, and establish alliances
that in turn aided their efforts to remain a nation in their
northern homeland. By reexamining the most tumultuous moments of
Northern Cheyenne removal, this book illustrates how the power of
kinship has safeguarded the nation's political autonomy even in the
face of U.S. encroachment, allowing the Cheyennes to shape their
own story.
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