This significant contribution to Cherokee studies examines the
tribe's life during the eighteenth century, up to the Removal. By
revealing town loyalties and regional alliances, Tyler Boulware
uncovers a persistent identification hierarchy among the colonial
Cherokee.
Boulware aims to fill the gap in Cherokee historical studies by
addressing two significant aspects of Cherokee identity: town and
region. Though other factors mattered, these were arguably the most
recognizable markers by which Cherokee peoples structured group
identity and influenced their interactions with outside groups
during the colonial era.
This volume focuses on the understudied importance of social and
political ties that gradually connected villages and regions and
slowly weakened the localism that dominated in earlier decades. It
highlights the importance of borderland interactions to Cherokee
political behavior and provides a nuanced investigation of the
issue of Native American identity, bringing geographic relevance
and distinctions to the topic.
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