Cherokee Americans

by Finger, John R.

• ISBN13: 9780803268791
• ISBN10: 0803268793
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-01-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

Much has been written about the forced removal of thousands of Cherokee Indians to present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s. Many of them died on the Trail of Tears. But until recently historians have largely ignored the tribal remnant that avoided removal and remained in North Carolina. John R. Finger shifts attention to the Eastern Band of Cherokees, descended from that remnant and now numbering almost ten thousand, most of whom live on a reservation adjacent to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.Cherokee Americansis, ironically, the first comprehensive account of the twentieth-century experience of a band that is known to and photographed by millions of tourists. This book is a sequel toThe Eastern Band of Cherokees, 18191900(1984) by John R. Finger, who is a professor of history at the University of Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Series Editors' Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
The Eastern Band in 1900	p. 1
Progressivism and the Cherokees	p. 17
The Citizenship and Allotment Disputes	p. 34
Continuity and Change	p. 53
A New Park and a New Deal	p. 75
Pursuing the Wily Tourist	p. 98
Testing the Federal Relationship	p. 118
Growth, Acculturation, and Self-Determination	p. 137
Cherokee Americans	p. 159
Abbreviations	p. 186
Notes	p. 187
Bibliographical Essay	p. 231
Index	p. 237
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