Symposium on Cherokee and Iroquois Culture; [papers]
Symposium on Cherokee and Iroquois Culture; [papers]

Author: Symposium On Ir Cherokee and Culture

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017741049

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Snowbird Cherokees
Snowbird Cherokees

Author: Sharlotte Neely

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011-03-15

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 082034074X

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This is the first ethnographic study of Snowbird, North Carolina, a remote mountain community of Cherokees who are regarded as simultaneously the most traditional and the most adaptive members of the entire tribe. Through historical research, contemporary fieldwork, and situational analysis, Sharlotte Neely explains the Snowbird paradox and portrays the inhabitants' daily lives and culture. At the core of her study are detailed examinations of two expressions of Snowbird's cultural self-awareness--its ongoing struggle for fair political representation on the tribal council and its yearly Trail of Tears Singing, a gathering point for all North Carolina and Oklahoma Cherokees concerned with cultural conservation.

Symposium on Cherokee and Iroquois Culture
Symposium on Cherokee and Iroquois Culture

Author: William Nelson Fenton

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13:

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First comment on Charles H. Holzinger's "Some observations on the persistence of aboriginal Cherokee personality traits" / David Landy -- Second comment on Charles H. Holzinger's "Some observations on the persistence of aboriginal Cherokee personality traits" / John Gulick -- Iroquoian culture history : A general evaluation / William N. Fenton.

Iroquois Journey
Iroquois Journey

Author: William N. Fenton

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0803213964

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William N Fenton (1908-2005), was a scholar who shaped Iroquois studies and modern anthropology in America. This memoir takes us from his ancestors' lives in the Conewango Valley in western New York to his education at Yale. It is also a testament to the importance of anthropology and a reminder of how much the field has changed over the years.

The Cherokees
The Cherokees

Author: Russell Thornton

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780803294103

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The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. He discusses their mysterious origins, their first contact with Europeans (prob-ably in 1540), and their fluctuation in population during the eighteenth century, when the Old World brought them smallpox. The toll taken by massive relocations in the following century, most notably the removal of the Cherokees from the Southeast to In-dian Territory, and by warfare, predating the American Revolution and including the Civil War, also enters into Thornton's calculations. He goes on to measure the resurgence of the Cherokees in the twentieth century, focusing on such population centers as North Carolina, Oklahoma, and California.

Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game
Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game

Author: Michael J. Zogry

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 0807898201

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Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it lasted so long, surviving through centuries of upheaval and change? Based on his work in the field and in the archives, Michael J. Zogry argues that members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation continue to perform selected aspects of their cultural identity by engaging in anetso, itself the hub of an extended ceremonial complex, or cycle. A precursor to lacrosse, anetso appears in all manner of Cherokee cultural narratives and has figured prominently in the written accounts of non-Cherokee observers for almost three hundred years. The anetso ceremonial complex incorporates a variety of activities which, taken together, complicate standard scholarly distinctions such as game versus ritual, public display versus private performance, and tradition versus innovation. Zogry's examination provides a striking opportunity for rethinking the understanding of ritual and performance as well as their relationship to cultural identity. It also offers a sharp reappraisal of scholarly discourse on the Cherokee religious system, with particular focus on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation.

Cherokee Americans
Cherokee Americans

Author: John R. Finger

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1991-01-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780803268791

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Finger is a descendant of the tribal remnant that avoided removal in the 1830s and instead remained in North Carolina. Most now live on a reservation adjacent to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.