The Cherokee diaspora : an indigenous history of migration, resettlement, and identity / Gregory D. Smithers.
Smithers, Gregory D., 1974- author.
2015
E99.C5 S6425 2015eb
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Title The Cherokee diaspora : an indigenous history of migration, resettlement, and identity / Gregory D. Smithers.
Author Smithers, Gregory D., 1974- author.
ISBN 9780300216585 (electronic book)
0300216580 (electronic book)
9780300169607
0300169604
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Call Number E99.C5 S6425 2015eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 970.00497557
Summary The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one Cherokee Indian ancestor. In this revealing history of Cherokee migration and resettlement, Gregory Smithers uncovers the origins of the Cherokee diaspora and explores how communities and individuals have negotiated their Cherokee identities, even when geographically removed from the Cherokee Nation headquartered in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Beginning in the eighteenth century, the author transports the reader back in time to tell the poignant story of the Cherokee people migrating throughout North America, including their forced exile along the infamous Trail of Tears (1838-39). Smithers tells a remarkable story of courage, cultural innovation, and resilience, exploring the importance of migration and removal, land and tradition, culture and language in defining what it has meant to be Cherokee for a widely scattered people.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-345) and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series Lamar series in western history.
Available in Other Form Cherokee diaspora
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Origins. The origins of the Cherokee diaspora ; Colonialism, Christianity, and Cherokee identity ; Removal, reunion, and diaspora ; Uncertain futures
Diaspora. War, division, and refugees ; The "refugee business" ; Cherokee freedmen ; Diasporic horizons.

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