| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Tiya Miles. Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom. (American Crossroads.) Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press in association with the George Gund Foundation Input in African American Studies. 2005. Pp. xix, 306. $34.95.
This book by Tiya Miles is an impressive work that attempts to trace the story of an African or African American woman, Doll, her Cherokee warrior husband, Shoeboots, and their children of mixed ancestry from the end of the eighteenth century through the end of the nineteenth and beyond. To tell such a story would seem to be difficult, given the absence of autobiographical records and the rarity of written evidence of any kind. However, because of Shoeboots's prominence in the Cherokee nation and his friendship with several English-literate Cherokees and Anglo-Americans, Doll and her descendants emerge out of the mists of time.	1
Miles uses the basic information on the Shoeboots family as a framework on which to hang evidence derived from many kinds of sources including autobiographical statements from other descendants of Afro-Cherokee mixtures, from ex-captives (slaves) held before the Civil War by Cherokee owners, from applications for citizenship in the Cherokee nation, from fictional accounts of black experiences in slavery (e.g. Toni Morrison's novel Beloved), from records of Cherokee governmental enactments, and from a very thorough perusal of a large secondary literature relating to Cherokee history and other aspects of Native American and Afro-Native experiences.	. . .

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