The Cherokee Freedmen

Author : Celia E. Naylor
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807877549
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book African Cherokees in Indian Territory written by Celia E. Naylor and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor vividly charts the experiences of enslaved and free African Cherokees from the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma's entry into the Union in 1907. Carefully extracting the voices of former slaves from interviews and mining a range of sources in Oklahoma, she creates an engaging narrative of the composite lives of African Cherokees. Naylor explores how slaves connected with Indian communities not only through Indian customs--language, clothing, and food--but also through bonds of kinship. Examining this intricate and emotionally charged history, Naylor demonstrates that the "red over black" relationship was no more benign than "white over black." She presents new angles to traditional understandings of slave resistance and counters previous romanticized ideas of slavery in the Cherokee Nation. She also challenges contemporary racial and cultural conceptions of African-descended people in the United States. Naylor reveals how black Cherokee identities evolved reflecting complex notions about race, culture, "blood," kinship, and nationality. Indeed, Cherokee freedpeople's struggle for recognition and equal rights that began in the nineteenth century continues even today in Oklahoma.

Author : Daniel F. Littlefield
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cherokee Freedmen written by Daniel F. Littlefield and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1978-12-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents include: Menuet II, from "Suite in A Minor (Georg Phillip Telemann), Musette, Op. 1, No. 4, (Pierre Danican Philidor), Giga, from Sonata in A Minor, Op. 5, No. 8 (Arcangelo Corelli), What Shall We do this Evening (Wat zal men op den Avond doen) (Jacob van Eyck), Canzona La Bernardinia (Girolamo Frescobaldi), Suite No., 3, Op. 2b (Jacques hotteterre le Romain), Allemande (La Cascade de St. Cloud)

Author : Ty Wilson & Karen Coody Cooper
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625859953
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma Black Cherokees written by Ty Wilson & Karen Coody Cooper and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the generations, Cherokee citizens became a conglomerate people. Early in the nineteenth century, tribal leaders adapted their government to mirror the new American model. While accommodating institutional slavery of black people, they abandoned the Cherokee matrilineal clan structure that once determined their citizenship. The 1851 census revealed a total population nearing 18,000, which included 1,844 slaves and 64 free blacks. What it means to be Cherokee has continued to evolve over the past century, yet the histories assembled here by Ty Wilson, Karen Coody Cooper and other contributing authors reveal a meaningful story of identity and survival.

Author : Randal Hall
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812290178
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Race and the Cherokee Nation written by Randal Hall and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We believe by blood only," said a Cherokee resident of Oklahoma, speaking to reporters in 2007 after voting in favor of the Cherokee Nation constitutional amendment limiting its membership. In an election that made headlines around the world, a majority of Cherokee voters chose to eject from their tribe the descendants of the African American freedmen Cherokee Indians had once enslaved. Because of the unique sovereign status of Indian nations in the United States, legal membership in an Indian nation can have real economic benefits. In addition to money, the issues brought forth in this election have racial and cultural roots going back before the Civil War. Race and the Cherokee Nation examines how leaders of the Cherokee Nation fostered a racial ideology through the regulation of interracial marriage. By defining and policing interracial sex, nineteenth-century Cherokee lawmakers preserved political sovereignty, delineated Cherokee identity, and established a social hierarchy. Moreover, Cherokee conceptions of race and what constituted interracial sex differed from those of blacks and whites. Moving beyond the usual black/white dichotomy, historian Fay A. Yarbrough places American Indian voices firmly at the center of the story, as well as contrasting African American conceptions and perspectives on interracial sex with those of Cherokee Indians. For American Indians, nineteenth-century relationships produced offspring that pushed racial and citizenship boundaries. Those boundaries continue to have an impact on the way individuals identify themselves and what legal rights they can claim today.

Author : Circe Sturm
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520230973
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Politics written by Circe Sturm and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2002-03-20 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blood Politics offers an anthropological analysis of contemporary identity politics within the second largest Indian tribe in the United States--one that pays particular attention to the symbol of "blood." The work treats an extremely sensitive topic with originality and insight. It is also notable for bringing contemporary theories of race, nationalism, and social identity to bear upon the case of the Oklahoma Cherokee."—Pauline Turner Strong, author of Captive Selves, Captivating Others: The Politics and Poetics of Colonial American Captivity Narratives

Author : Darnella Davis
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826359809
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage written by Darnella Davis and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of Muscogee Creek heritage, Darnella Davis’s memoir writes a new chapter in the history of racial mixing on the frontier. It is the only book-length account of the intersections between the three races in Indian Territory and Oklahoma written from the perspective of a tribal person and a freedman. The histories of these families, along with the starkly different federal policies that molded their destinies, offer a powerful corrective to the historical narrative. From the Allotment Period to the present, their claims of racial identity and land in Oklahoma reveal inequalities that still fester more than one hundred years later. Davis offers a provocative opportunity to unpack our current racial discourse and ask ourselves, “Who are ‘we’ really?”

Author : John Wallace
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544948928
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wallace Rolls written by John Wallace and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These rolls were created because the Cherokee citizenship of many ex-slaves of the Cherokee in Indian Territory was disputed by the Cherokee tribe. The establishment of their status was important in determining their right to live on Cherokee land and to share in certain annuity and other payment, including a special $75,000 award voted by Congress on October 19, 1888. A series of investigations was conducted in order to compile the rolls of the Cherokee Freedmen. These investigations were conducted by John W. Wallace, 1889-1890; Leo E. Bennett, 1891-92; Marcus D. Shelby, 1893; James G. Dickson, 1895-96; and William Clifton, William Thompson, and Robert H. Kern, 1896-97. This book provides genealogical evidence to descendants of slaves that lived among the Native lands and may aid them in obtaining citizenship with the Cherokee Nation if they can prove lineage.

Author : Of The Interior U.S. Department
Publisher : Editora Gente Liv e Edit Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780806317397
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Final Rolls of Citizens and Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory written by Of The Interior U.S. Department and published by Editora Gente Liv e Edit Ltd. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note: Freedmen are Afro-Americans.

Author : Barbara Krauthamer
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469607107
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Slaves, Indian Masters written by Barbara Krauthamer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South

Author : Theda Perdue
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870495304
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866 written by Theda Perdue and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery was practiced among North American Indians long before Europeans arrived on these shores, bringing their own version of this "peculiar institution." Unlike the European institution, however, Native American slavery was function of warfare among tribes, replenishment of population lost through intertribal conflict or disease, and establishment and preservation of tribal standards of behavior. American Indians had little use, in primary purpose of slavery among Europeans. Theda Perdue here traces the history of slavery among the Cherokee Indians as it evolved from 1540 to 1866, indicating not only why the intrusion of whites, "slaves" contributed nothing to the Cherokee economy. During the colonial period, however, Cherokees actively began to capture members of other tribes and were themselves captured and sold to whites as chattels for the Caribbean slave trade. Also during this period, African slaves were introduced among the Indians, and when intertribal warfare ended, the use of forced labor to increase agricultural and other production emerged within Cherokee society. Well aware that the institution of black slavery was only one of many important changes that gradually broke down the traditional Cherokee culture after 1540, Professor Perdue integrates her concern with slavery into the total picture of cultural transformation resulting from the clash between European and Amerindian societies. She has made good use of previous anthropological and sociological studies, and presents an excellent summary of the relevant historical materials, ever attempting to see cultural crises from the perspective of the Cherokees. The first over-all account of the effect of slavery upon the Cherokees, Perdue's acute analysis and readable narrative provide the reader with a new angle of vision on the changing nature of Cherokee culture under the impact of increasing contact with Europeans.