| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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Book Review

Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830–1900. By Andrew Denson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. x + 327 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $55.00, £41.95.)

Demanding the Cherokee Nation is a thoughtful and challenging reinterpretation of law and politics, leadership and rhetorical strategy in the Cherokee Nation from 1830 to 1900. For students of the history of the Cherokee people little is more frustrating than the fact that so much has been written about this period with so little actually rooted in research in the vast body of available records. For what seems like three or four generations, much of Cherokee scholarship, particularly of this period, has consisted of rehashing or reviewing the work of Grant Foreman, Morris Wardell, and Emmet Starr. By contrast, Andrew Denson has chosen to follow the bright path of original researchers such as Theda Perdue, William McLoughlin, and Dan Littlefield in building his well documented analysis. Denson makes extensive use of original documents (many never before reviewed) to show how the Cherokees built a model for American Indian relations in which the Indian Nations themselves could coexist with a modernizing United States.

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