Book
Dependence and underdevelopment: the political economy of Cherokee Native Americans
University Microfilms International • Ann Arbor, Michigan • Published In 1987 • Pages:
By: Anders, Gary C..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study focuses on the factors which have contributed to Indian underdevelopment by demonstrating the relationship between the Cherokee tribal economy and the local White economy. The author suggests that long-standing U. S. government policies are the basis of Cherokee and other Native Americans' economic dependency. Such dependency he finds is characteristic of internal colonialism. The first chapter details the distribution of poverty as measured in levels of unemployment, earnings and education among Native Americans generally and compares these figures with those for other minority groups. The author then outlines dependency theory whereby nations in control of dependent populations extract economic resources from them for their own use rather than for their colonies' development. This theoretical model the author applies specifically in the case of the Cherokee and to other Indians as well. The author further defends his theoretical approach by comparing dependency theory with conventional theories of development. The middle sections review not only the exploitative side of Cherokee contacts with Whites from the 16th through the 19th centuries, but also elaborates on Cherokee achievements in education and commerce which were extensive enough to make them economically self-sufficient. Cherokee participation in U. S. affairs, especially the Civil War, helped to exacerbate internal polarities between tribal members, however. The last sections of the text concern the establishment of the Cherokee Nation after 1838. The net effect of Federal policies toward the Cherokee as well as the division between Cherokee fullbloods and mixedbloods was the consistent loss of land from the former group. The author maintains that the dispute between traditional Cherokees, who try to preserve their heritage, and the mixedbloods, who control the Indian bureaucracy and have cultural ties with the local economy in Oklahoma as well, is central to understanding Indian underdevelopment.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Real property
- Government regulation
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cherokee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Economist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Delores Walters ; John Beierle ; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1977-1978
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Oklahoma, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Gary Carson Anders
- Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Notre Dame, 1979
- UM7908374
- The first chapter, detailing the distribution of poverty as measured in levels of unemployment, earnings and education among Native Americans generally and comparing these figures with those for other minority groups, has been Indexed for 'THEORETICAL ORIENTATION IN RESEARCH AND ITS RESULTS' (121).
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians