Oklahoma Black Cherokees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Oklahoma Black Cherokees write by Ty Wilson & Karen Coody Cooper. This book was released on 2017. Oklahoma Black Cherokees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
African Cherokees in Indian Territory
African Cherokees in Indian Territory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook African Cherokees in Indian Territory write by Celia E. Naylor. This book was released on 2009-09-15. African Cherokees in Indian Territory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Red Over Black
Red Over Black - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Red Over Black write by R Halliburton. This book was released on 1977. Red Over Black available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Appendix A presents interviews with ex-slaves "conducted during the 1930s."
Blood Politics
Blood Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blood Politics write by Circe Sturm. This book was released on 2002-03-20. Blood Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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
Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage
Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage write by Darnella Davis. This book was released on 2018-11-01. Untangling a Red, White, and Black Heritage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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?”
