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Cherokee anomie, 1794-1910: new roles for Red men, Red women, and Black slaves
Cherokee ghost dance : essays on the Southeastern Indians, 1789-1861 • [Macon, Ga.] • Published In 1984 • Pages: 3-37
By: McLoughlin, William Gerald, Conser, Walter H., McLoughlin, Virginia Duffy.
Abstract
Following an era of intermittent warfare from 1776 to 1794 which decimated the Cherokee population, and a period of intense acculturaltion after 1789 that basically doomed their traditional way of life, a cultural conflict took place within the nation over whether or not to adopt farming as their Euroamerican conquerors urged, or to persist in their mixed hunting-farming economy as the majority of the Cherokees preferred. This essay attempts to show how difficult those years of confusion from 1794 to 1810 were to the Cherokees and how in the end the high level of achievement of the people at all levels of cultural development were successful in bringing about a new period of Cherokee revitalization.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- North America
- Sub Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Historian
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- John Beierle ; 2006
- Field Date
- no date
- Coverage Date
- 1750-1828
- Coverage Place
- southeastern states, United States
- Notes
- by William G. McLoughlin with Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Virginia Duffy McLoughlin
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCN
- 84014880
- LCSH
- Cherokee Indians