The Act of Union Between the Eastern and Western Cherokees
Author: Cherokee Nation
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 108
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Author: Cherokee Nation
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Published: 1870
Total Pages: 108
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Published: 1875
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Publisher: LLMC
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Total Pages: 101
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John R. Finger
Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780870494109
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume presents the story of the Eastern Band of Cherokees during the nineteenth century. This group - the tribal remnant in North Carolina that escaped removal in the 1830's - found their fortitude and resilience continually tested as they struggled with a variety of problems, including the upheavals of the Civil War and Reconstruction, internal divisiveness, white encroachment on their lands, and a poorly defined relationship with the state and federal governments. Yet despite such stresses and a selective adaptation in the face of social and economic changes, the Eastern Cherokees retained a sense of tribal identity as they stood at the threshold of the twentieth century.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Indian Affairs
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bob Blankenship
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMembers of the Cherokee Tribe residing east of the Mississippi River during the period 1817-1924.
Author: Samuel C. Stambaugh
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Published: 1846
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Census Office 11th census, 1890
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret Bender
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-04-03
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0807860050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary--the written system for representing the sounds of the Cherokee language--in Eastern Cherokee life. The Cherokee syllabary was invented in the 1820s by the respected Cherokee Sequoyah. The syllabary quickly replaced alternative writing systems for Cherokee and was reportedly in widespread use by the mid-nineteenth century. After that, literacy in Cherokee declined, except in specialized religious contexts. But as Bender shows, recent interest in cultural revitalization among the Cherokees has increased the use of the syllabary in education, publications, and even signage. Bender also explores the role played by the syllabary within the ever more important context of tourism. (The Eastern Cherokee Band hosts millions of visitors each year in the Great Smoky Mountains.) English is the predominant language used in the Cherokee community, but Bender shows how the syllabary is used in special and subtle ways that help to shape a shared cultural and linguistic identity among the Cherokees. Signs of Cherokee Culture thus makes an important contribution to the ethnographic literature on culturally specific literacies.
Author: Sandra Muse Isaacs
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2019-07-10
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 0806165529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Throughout our Cherokee history,” writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, “our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are.” These traditional stories embody the Cherokee concepts of Gadugi, working together for the good of all, and Duyvkta, walking the right path, and teach listeners how to understand and live in the world with reverence for all living things. In Eastern Cherokee Stories, Sandra Muse Isaacs uses the concepts of Gadugi and Duyvkta to explore the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition, and to explain how storytelling in this tradition—as both an ancient and a contemporary literary form—is instrumental in the perpetuation of Cherokee identity and culture. Muse Isaacs worked among the Eastern Cherokees of North Carolina, recording stories and documenting storytelling practices and examining the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition as both an ancient and contemporary literary form. For the descendants of those Cherokees who evaded forced removal by the U.S. government in the 1830s, storytelling has been a vital tool of survival and resistance—and as Muse Isaacs shows us, this remains true today, as storytelling plays a powerful role in motivating and educating tribal members and others about contemporary issues such as land reclamation, cultural regeneration, and language revitalization. The stories collected and analyzed in this volume range from tales of creation and origins that tell about the natural world around the homeland, to post-Removal stories that often employ Native humor to present the Cherokee side of history to Cherokee and non-Cherokee alike. The persistence of this living oral tradition as a means to promote nationhood and tribal sovereignty, to revitalize culture and language, and to present the Indigenous view of history and the land bears testimony to the tenacity and resilience of the Cherokee people, the Ani-Giduwah.