Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation

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Sustaining the Cherokee Family Sustaining the Cherokee Family Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation 6' rose stremlau First Peoples New Directions in Indigenous Studies the university of north carolina press chapel hill Publication of this book was made possible, in part, with a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.© 2011 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Designed by Michelle Coppedge Set in MT Walbaum by IBT Manufactured in the United States of America The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stremlau, Rose. Sustaining the Cherokee family : kinship and the allotment of an indigenous nation / Rose Stremlau. p. cm. — (New directions in indigenous studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-8078-3499-2 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn 978-0-8078-7204-8 (pbk : alk. paper) 1. Cherokee Indians—Land tenure. 2. Cherokee Indians—Cultural assimilation. 3. Cherokee Indians—Kinship. 4. Allotment of land—Government policy— Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma. 5. Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma—History. 6. Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma—Social conditions. 7. United States—Social policy. 8. United States—Race relations. I. Title. e99.c5s8665 2011 976.6004'97557—dc22 2011008427 Portions of this book were published, in somewhat different form, as “In Defense of ‘This Great Family Government and Estate’: Cherokee Masculinity and the Opposition to Allotment,” in Southern Masculinities, ed. Craig T. Friend (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2009), 65–82; and “‘To Domesticate and Civilize Wild Indians’: Allotment and the Campaign to Reform Indian Families, 1875–1887,” Journal of Family History 30.3 (July 2005): 265–86. Used by permission. cloth 15 14 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 paper 15 14 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1 For Jack This page intentionally left blank ...