Still Cherokee: Language, Memory, and Place

WEEK THREE: July 13–July 19, 2014=

Guiding Questions:

1. How is Cherokee identity defined, maintained, and expressed across the post-removal Cherokee world?
2. How have contrasting paradigms of unity, governance, and decision making impacted Cherokee life?
3. What lessons can be learned from the history of the Cherokee people over the last 250 years and how are these lessons relevant to bridging cultural divides in the present?

Required Readings for Week Three:

Denson, Andrew. Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900. University of Nebraska Press, 2004.

Holm, Tom, Diane J. Pearson, and Ben Chavis. Peoplehood: A Model for the Extension of Sovereignty in American Indian Studies (pp. 7-24) in Wicazo Sa Review, Vol. 18, Number 1, Spring 2003. University of Minnesota Press.

Suggested Readings for Week Three:

Dugan, Betty J. Voices from the Periphery: Reconstructing and Interpreting Post-Removal Histories of the Duck Town Cherokees (pp. 41–68) in Southern Indians and Anthropologists. University of Georgia Press, 2002.

Finger, John R. A Traditional Way of Life (pp. 60–81), and Always a Cherokee (pp.147–178) in The Eastern Band of the Cherokee 1819–1900. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

Mankiller, Wilma and Michael Wallis. Mankiller: A Chief and her People. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.

Rifkin, Mark, “Representing the Cherokee Nation: Subaltern Studies and Native American Sovereignty,” boundary 2, 32 (Sept. 2005), 47–80.