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The Cherokee perspective: written by Eastern Cherokees
Appalachian Consortium Press • Boone, North Carolina • Published In 1981 • Pages:
By: French, Laurence, Hornbuckle, Jim, Owl, Karen French, Wachacha, Herbert, Wachacha, Yvonne, Crowe, Richard, Walker, Amy, Teesatuskie, Reuben, Martin, Elsie, Panther, Patricia.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This document consists of a series of articles, interviews, reminiscences, discussions, and literary pieces by Cherokees from Qualla Boundary, the Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina. In addition, this document is the product of an upsurge of interest in Cherokee culture at Qualla Boundary and part of an organized effort there to record and preserve information on past and contemporary Cherokee life for cultural and educational purposes. The topics covered are varied, but fall into two main sections: 1) Cherokee history and contemporary Cherokee society at Qualla Boundary and 2) Cherokee arts. The section focusing on contemporary and historic Cherokee society includes an overview of Cherokee history with special reference to the emergence and development of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee and discussions of contemporary social issues at Qualla Boundary, such as education, continuity and change. The second part of this document on Cherokee arts presents a number of examples of Cherokee stories and poetry and includes discussions of Cherokee dances, arts and crafts, and cooking. A final section of this document contains the text of selected articles printed in 'Cherokee One Feather', the official tribal newspaper. These articles give some flavor of community life at Qualla Boundary.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Interviewing in research
- Life history materials
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Food preparation
- Literary texts
- Exhibitions
- Government institutions
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Cherokee
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- 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
- collection
- Evaluation
- Creator TypesThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Indigenous Person
- Educator
- 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
- Gerald Reid; 1988
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1540-1975
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Cherokee Indian Reservation (Qualla Boundary), North Carolina, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Edited by Laurence French and Jim Hornbuckle
- Part I: The Cherokees then and now -- Comments on the Cherokee way of life
- Part II: Cherokee heritage and folklore -- Cherokee poetry -- Cherokee arts and crafts
- From the CHEROKEE ONE FEATHER, the official tribal newspaper --Cherokee profiles
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians