...Mark Rifkin Duke University Press 2005 Representing the Cherokee Nation: Subaltern Studies and Native American Sovereignty Mark Rifkin In ‘‘American Indian Intellectualism and the New Indian Story Eliza...

... of the French soldiers and the Cherokee warriors responsible for the murder of women and chil- dren at Fort Charles. After he marries, Martin becomes a slaveholding mem- ber of the Southern plantocracy and a potential secessionist who harbors serious questions about the political validity of the ‘‘causes...

... case of Cherokee Nation v. State of Georgia. The justices ruled that the Native American population were members of ‘‘domestic dependent nations’’ and therefore could not be granted the rights that were then given by states and territories.63 In the contemporary global polity, racial slavery...

.... You would have to make impossible travel to African tribal outbacks, to Cherokee enclaves on the long march west out of Alabama and Tennes- see toward Oklahoma, a century and a half ago and earlier, to hear such hopeful, such innocent and elemental musical speech. I cannot know that with a final...

... in dress, industries, tolls, modes of travel, and thought. It takes him from the railroad and puts him in the birch canoe. It strips off the garments of civilization and arrays him in the hunting shirt and the moccasin. It puts him in the log cabin of the Cherokee and Iroquois and runs...

... It isn’t just Mullen’s work that moves from just happening to be in English in the ’80s to investigating what it means to be writing in English in the ’90s. John Yau’s poem “Ing Grish” is about what it means to know English.27 Diane Glancy uses Cherokee words or grammatical...

... of blackness: the topic of white and black human worth and dignity. The issue was perplexed because my mother’s mom 14. Lees, Cats of Any Color, 245. 176 boundary 2 / Fall 2011 was half Cherokee, which made mine not wholly white and me less for- tunate than her. I always adopted a redskin...