| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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Book Review

Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier. By Cynthia Cumfer. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xii + 324 pp. Illustration, maps, notes, index. $59.95, cloth; $22.50, paper.)

Separate Peoples, One Land offers an intellectual history of the white, black, and Cherokee inhabitants of the Tennessee frontier from 1768 through 1810. Cumfer explores the ideologies of each group to determine how extensive contact and the American Revolution transformed the concepts and assumptions each group held about themselves and their neighbors. Cumfer argues that two sovereign peoples, Americans and Cherokees, meeting in the backcountry held disparate approaches to diplomacy and different ideologies governing social organization. She contends ideas produced by the American Revolution pushed both groups "to reassess their beliefs and cultural logic about how to make foreign connections and how to reconcile localism with authority in the national body politic" (p. 3). Cumfer concludes that the modification of these beliefs "affected [Americans' and Cherokees'] relationships with each other and their ideas about intracommunal social relations, politics, and economic issues" (p. 231). She utilizes a variety of primary source material, including newspapers, personal correspondence, records of treaty negotiations, and court documents, as well as state and federal records in order to explain how the Cherokees, Americans, and African Americans "reenvisioned social, governmental, and material relations" (p. 3).

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