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Book Review


Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. By Fay A. Yarbrough. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. x, 184 pp. $55.00, ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6.)
In Race and the Cherokee Nation, Fay A. Yarbrough examines nineteenth-century Cherokee law regarding citizenship and interracial marriage. The book makes an important contribution to the increasingly sophisticated literature on race, slavery, and the experience of black Indians within the Five Tribes of the South. It may also prove politically significant, given the current battle in Oklahoma over the status of Cherokee freedman descendants. . . .
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