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Acknowledgments The research and publication of this book were supported by an American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant, three University of Kansas General Research Fund Awards, and a Friends of the Hall Center for the Humanities Book Publication Award. For their friendship, as well as thoughtful engagement with and support of my work over the years, thanks in particular to Frank M. Chapman,Vincent J. Cornell, Sam D. Gill, James B. Jeffries, Joel S. Kaminsky, James M. McLachlan , Carrie McLachlan, Michael McNally, Craig Prentiss, Anne F. Rogers, and Daniel B. Stevenson. I also thank Vine Deloria Jr., Raymond D. Fogelson, John D. Loftin, Charles H. Long, Dwight F. Reynolds, Jonathan Z. Smith, and Inés M. Talamantez for their critiques, guidance, and suggestions regarding earlier formulations of ideas that made their way into this book. Thanks as well to the two anonymous readers for their keen critiques and constructive suggestions. For excellent conversation and an even better critical reading of the manuscript, I again thank my colleague Dan Stevenson here at the University of Kansas. Finally, I thank Elaine Maisner, my editor at the University of North Carolina Press, for her support, editorial advice, and patience. I was aided immeasurably in my archival research by staff members at the following institutions: the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History Department of Anthropology, the National Anthropological Archives, and the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington , D.C., and Suitland, Md.; the National Archives, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of the Cherokee Indian Archives, Cherokee, N.C.; the American Philosophical Society Library, Philadelphia, Pa.; the National Archives regional depositories in Morrow, Ga., and Kansas City, Mo.; the Newberry Library, Chicago, Ill.; the Moravian Archives, Winston-Salem, N.C.; the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and the Manuscript Collections, Duke University, N.C. Of great assistance in particular were past and present archivists at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian Archives, Joan Greene and James “Bo” Taylor. On the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina, many individuals and institutions aided me in the completion of this book. First, I would like to thank the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council for their formal approval of my research projects. Thanks to the staff at the Museum of the x Acknowledgments Cherokee Indian, Cherokee, N.C., for their collegiality. In particular, I would like to thank Ken Blankenship, director of the museum, and Barry Hipps, former director of the Cherokee Historical Association, for their assistance and support. I want to extend a special thank you as well to the staff, “lunchtime crowd,” and residents of Tsali Manor, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Senior Citizens Center, who always made me feel welcome. Particular thanks are due to Deborah West, director of the center. A number of friends, consultants, and interview participants who live on the Qualla Boundary have educated me immeasurably; others who did the same have passed away. Many individuals who have shared a great deal of their knowledge with me will not appear by name or by any other identifying characteristic in this book. I do, however, want to take this opportunity to thank all of them for sharing their time, experiences, and viewpoints with me, for the welcome that they gave me, as well as for their patience and, at times, bluntness. For their longtime support I acknowledge my mother, Sharon Davis, and my brothers, Kenneth and Eric. I also acknowledge my father, Arnold Zogry, and my stepfather, Robert Davis, both of whom have passed away. Wherever they are, I hope there is a library.To my children, Sophia and Daniel, Daddy’s finally done with his book! I look forward to watching you both grow up and make your own marks and remarks on the world. Finally, to my wife, Sally Monahan Zogry, I’m finally done with the book! I couldn’t have done it without you. Well, even if I could have, as I will no doubt say when my time in this world is through, I wouldn’t have wanted to. ...

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