| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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Book Review

Cherokee Women in Crisis: Trail of Tears, Civil War, and Allotment, 1838–1907. By Carolyn Ross Johnston. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2003. xiv + 227 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95, paper.)

The story of Indian and white relations in nineteenth-century America is a familiar one, and perhaps no part of it more tragic than that recording the ordeal of the Cherokee people. Carolyn Ross Johnston's remarkable contribution is a fresh synthesis of this history that positions the roles of women as the lens through which Cherokee cultural resilience is revealed. Johnston documents continuity and adaptation for survival through three periods of extreme stress: removal from their homelands, devastating war, and termination of communal land ownership. At each of these moments, Cherokee gender relations suffered assault and dislocation. Cherokee women lost many of their rights and found their traditional roles altered. Still, through "agency, adaptation, and negotiated response," they were able to maintain some of their essential beliefs, ceremonies, and cultural patterns (p. 2).

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