| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree: Alcohol and the Sovereignty of the Cherokee Nation. By Izumi Ishii. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. xvi, 260 pp. $45.00, ISBN 978-0-8032-2506-0.)

Given the ongoing debate regarding the "drunken Indian" stereotype, it is fitting that this first serious attempt to recount the history of alcohol among one tribe focuses on the Cherokees—one of the largest and most diverse Indian nations in post-Columbian North America. In their original domain, covering parts of present Tennessee, Georgia, and the Carolinas, the Cherokees were afforded a variety of "bad fruits of the civilized tree" well before the American Revolution, including the white man's alcohol. And it was alcohol that became an increasingly popular consumer commodity for the Cherokees in the following century.

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