| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Andrew Denson. Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture 1830–1900. (Indians of the Southeast.) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. 2004. Pp. 327. $55.00.

Andrew Denson investigates nineteenth-century Cherokee political thought as expressed in public memorials, petitions, and appeals. Though he is attentive to event-specific changes, Denson finds consistency in Cherokee assertions of progress and the nation's viability within an expanding, modern United States. Aimed primarily at Euro-American audiences, Cherokee writings strategically employed rhetoric that was deeply engaged with contemporary American culture, which had the effect of conflating Cherokee interests with those of the United States. Mindful of the limits of this strategy, Denson offers lessons in the promise and perils of arguing in terms set by Euro-Americans and provides a glimpse of "what might have been" had the Cherokees achieved their political goals.

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