Books in the Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives series

In response to the influx of white settlement after the Civil War, the Cherokee nation devised a regional development plan which allowed whites to establish farms and build towns while reinforcing Cherokee tribal sovereignty over the territory. The presence of sizeable towns and numerous villages presented a legal conundrum for Congress when it legislated away Cherokee sovereignty at the turn of the century. By 1898, tens of thousands of whites owned residential and commercial properties worth millions of dollars in Cherokee Nation towns, but every lot was owned by the Cherokee people. The federal government created a program to transfer legal ownership of town lots to white occupants, but poor implementation of the program allowed individuals to subvert the law for their own gain. The author explores the subject using primary documentation of such diverse sources as traveler's reports, land records, tribal and federal correspondence, and accounts of Cherokee and white settlers. Descriptive statistics and analytical mapping of historical data provide additional facets to the analysis. Also inlcludes 50 maps.(Ph.D. dissertation, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1996; revised with new preface, introduction, afterword) Index. Bibliography.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1998. Part of the Native Americans Interdisciplinary Perspectives series, this volume looks at the informal economy of the Navajo from 1868 to 1995. In this study Dine is used in place of Navajo when referring to the people. Since 1868 three major revolutions have integrated the Dine into the world capitalist system: the establishment of military peace, resulting in political control by the U.S. Government, which then guaranteed the establishment of trading posts; the stock reduction of the 1930''s, which resulted in money becoming central to economic life; and the importation of highly capital-intensive extractive industries onto the Navajo Reservation.

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This study provides new information regarding the instruction of American Indian music in Oklahoma, and shows the effect of demographic variables of teachers and students on pedagogical context and practice.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The study provides new information regarding the instruction of American Indian music in Oklahoma, and shows the affect of demographic variables of teachers and students on pedagogical content and practice.

Political Principles and Indian Sovereignty examines the connection between the well being of Indain paople, the severeignty of Indian Nations and the democratic principles on which the United was founded.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book considers how museums, and those who work in them, have responded to the challenge of writing more complex and multivocal history for the Native Canadian nation.

This study explores how the five tribes of Oklahoma strove to achieve political unity within their tribes during the first decades of the 20th century by forging a new sense of people-hood around the idea of blood.

Focusing on the economic history of the Navajo, known more correctly as the DinT people, this study explores how a combination of capitalism and traditional kinship economy have merged to change the lives of a people who are a part of, yet separated from, the surrounding US economy. Oral history is

This book is the first in-depth look at the past 120 years of struggle over the Oglala Lakota land base on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

The author explores how tribal governments have worked through the constraints of their eroded territory and sovereignty to provide effective leadership and governance.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Focusing on the work of four of the 20th century's Native American authors, this work argues that a tribal construct of gender relations, where the relationship between male and female roles is complementary rather than hierarchical, accounts for the existence of empowered female characters in Native American literature.

In an exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions.