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December, 2006
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Demanding the Cherokee Nation
Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900

By Andrew Denson
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. Pp. xi, 327. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00.)

Andrew Denson's contribution to the University of Nebraska's series on Indians of the Southeast joins a growing and timely debate about Indian sovereignty. Focusing on the Cherokees, one of the most acculturated of the Five Tribes in the nineteenth century, Denson's text richly explores resources only marginally used by previous historians. Rather than depending upon Bureau of Indian Affairs materials, the book considers United States House and Senate memorials, documents, and speeches prepared by the Cherokee leadership as examples of both meaningful resistance to American Indian policy and engagement of broader conceptions of Indian nationhood. Denson, whose approach to the sources draws on the literary criticism of Arnold Krupat and Homi K. Bhabha's theories of "cultural ambivalence," maintains that the Cherokees responded to changes in American life by arguing that the preservation of Indian nations, rather than their dissolution, would be the most effective means to progress. . . .
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