Cherokee Women In Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838-1907 (Contemporary American Indian Studies)
Description
Explains how traditional Cherokee women's roles were destabilized, modified, recovered, and in some ways strengthened during three periods of great turmoil.American Indian women have traditionally played vital roles in social hierarchies at the family, clan, and tribal levels. In the Cherokee Nation, specifically, women and men are considered equal contributors to the culture. With this study, however, we learn that three key historical events in the 19th and early 20th centuries—removal, the Civil War, and allotment of their lands—forced a radical renegotiation of gender r...
ISBN(s)
081735056X, 9780817350567
