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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Theda Perdue. Cherokee Women: Gender and Culture Change, 1700–1835. (Indians of the Southeast.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 1998. Pp. xi, 252. $40.00.

As the new millennium beckons, the Ani-Yun-Wiya (Cherokee) remain a thriving "real people." Like other Native groups, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is engaged in a cultural renaissance following the difficult decades that began with the creation of the State of Oklahoma and the federal goverment's refutation of the tribe's sovereignty. Both this nation and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina have recently benefited from the respective leadership of Wilma Mankiller and Joyce Dugan. In 1999, strong women's participation helped the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma revise its constitution. Theda Perdue offers a timely evaluation of Cherokee women's role prior to removal. The women of the era recreated by Perdue were contending with the deer hide demands of Scottish fur traders and, later, with Thomas Jefferson's fallacious opinions about the Cherokee. Today, other issues have encouraged "the reemergence of Cherokee women onto a public stage" (p. 195). Then and now, Cherokee women have maintained their role as figures of strength within their society. 1

Perdue has earned national recognition as a scholar of the Cherokee. Best known for her book, Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540–1866 (1979), she has also authored or edited several other volumes on the Cherokee and other southeastern Natives. The Cherokee Removal, A Brief History With Documents, coedited with Michael D. Green (1995), has spawned vigorous discussion in one of my courses on American Indians/Alaska Natives. In the book under review, Perdue draws heavily on this extensive research experience to relate an intriguing tale of adaptation and continuity. . . .

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