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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Carolyn Ross Johnston. Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907. (Contemporary American Indian Studies.) Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. 2003. Pp. xiv, 227. Cloth $48.00, paper $29.95.
This book will be of interest for scholars and students as well as the general reader. It focuses on the dramatic changes in the lives of Cherokee women between 1838 and 1907. Carolyn Ross Johnston describes her search for Caldonia (p. xii), an ancestor who died in 1843. However, this book is not just about one woman but about Cherokee women of her era and their place in history. It is disappointing that the records do not allow Caldonia to appear as a fully realized individual, but in the search Johnston uncovers a more complex story.	1
One strength of this narrative is Johnston's theme of class as vital to understanding gender in the historical record. The only place this theme falters is in the first chapter, which explores the traditional culture of the Cherokee women. Unfortunately the descriptions are not well integrated and, unlike the rest of the book, the discrete differences between classes and categories of people are not apparent. Further, the nature of matriliny and the clan system, which is vital to understanding the later changes, are not fully explored. Given the long tradition of ethnohistory that calls upon the strengths of both anthropology and history, a more expansive discussion of the literature would have been especially welcome. An ongoing conversation between anthropologists and historians on this topic is sorely needed.	. . .

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