Race and the Cherokee Nation : sovereignty in the nineteenth century

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Label

Race and the Cherokee Nation : sovereignty in the nineteenth century

Title remainder

sovereignty in the nineteenth century

Statement of responsibility

Fay A. Yarbrough

Creator

• Yarbrough, Fay A

Subject

• Slavery
• African Americans -- Relations with Indians
• Slavery -- Oklahoma -- History
• Ex-slaves of Indian tribes
• Sklaverei
• Cherokee Indians -- Race identity
• History
• Southern States
• Oklahoma -- Race relations
• Electronic books
• Slavery -- Southern States -- History
• African Americans -- Relations with Indians
• Cherokee
• Oklahoma
• Ethnische Beziehungen
• Indians of North America -- Mixed descent
• Ethnische Identität
• Electronic book
• HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
• Ex-slaves of Indian tribes -- Oklahoma -- History
• USA
• Race relations
• Ex-slaves of Indian tribes -- Southern States -- History
• Southern States -- Race relations
• Schwarze
• Indians of North America -- Mixed descent

Genre

• Electronic book
• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

"We believe by blood only," said a Cherokee resident of Oklahoma, speaking to reporters in 2007 after voting in favor of the Cherokee Nation constitutional amendment limiting its membership. In an election that made headlines around the world, a majority of Cherokee voters chose to eject from their tribe the descendants of the African American freedmen Cherokee Indians had once enslaved. Because of the unique sovereign status of Indian nations in the United States, legal membership in an Indian nation can have real economic benefits. In addition to money, the issues brought forth in this election have racial and cultural roots going back before the Civil War. Race and the Cherokee Nation examines how leaders of the Cherokee Nation fostered a racial ideology through the regulation of interracial marriage. By defining and policing interracial sex, nineteenth-century Cherokee lawmakers preserved political sovereignty, delineated Cherokee identity, and established a social hierarchy. Moreover, Cherokee conceptions of race and what constituted interracial sex differed from those of blacks and whites. Moving beyond the usual black/white dichotomy, historian Fay A. Yarbrough places American Indian voices firmly at the center of the story, as well as contrasting African American conceptions and perspectives on interracial sex with those of Cherokee Indians. For American Indians, nineteenth-century relationships produced offspring that pushed racial and citizenship boundaries. Those boundaries continue to have an impact on the way individuals identify themselves and what legal rights they can claim today

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

JSTOR

Dewey number

305.897/557

Illustrations

maps

Index

index present

Language note

In English

LC call number

E99.C5

LC item number

Y37 2008eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography