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Book Review

Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. By Circe Sturm. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. xv + 249 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00, £35.00, cloth; $19.95, £13.95, paper.)

     This book should have been written decades ago. The language of blood has permeated Cherokee scholarship since the nineteenth century, and many scholars, even today, still use blood as a category of analysis. Yet few authors explain what they mean by blood, beyond recent disclaimers that they do not really mean genetics when they write about "mixed bloods" and "full bloods," nor do they recognize that "blood" is a concept whose meaning and significance changes over time. . . .

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