essay
Women, men and American Indian policy: the Cherokee response to 'civilization'
Negotiators of change : historical perspectives on Native American women • New York • Published In 1995 • Pages: 90-114
By: Perdue, Theda.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the Cherokees became active in the deerskin trade introduced into the Southeast by Europeans, but by the late 1700s, Euro-Americans were more interested in land than in trading for hides. From the end of the Revolutionary War through the 1830s, the United States pressured the Cherokees to cede more of their land. As Perdue discusses, the Cherokees were at the same time subjected to a 'benevolent' effort on the part of the U.S. to 'civilize' them; that is, to remake them in its image. The Cherokees willingly accommodated certain aspects of American culture, but were still forced to cede their lands in the Southeast and to remove to Indian Territory in the winter of 1838-39. The Cherokees built a new nation in the West, in what is now Oklahoma, while a small number of Cherokees who had avoided removal also reorganized as a tribe and today have a reservation in western North Carolina (p. 90).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Domesticated animals
- Tillage
- Division of labor by gender
- External relations
- Public welfare
- 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
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierlec; 2006
- 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
- 1789-1830
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North Carolina, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Theda Perdue
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 94015774
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians