essay
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.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Sociocultural trends
- Functional and adaptational interpretations
- Gender status
- Ethnic stratification
- External relations
- Public welfare
- Trial procedure
- 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 Beierle ; 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
- 1750-1828
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeastern states, United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- by William G. McLoughlin with Walter H. Conser, Jr. and Virginia Duffy McLoughlin
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 84014880
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Cherokee Indians