... Nations should be done. Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. By Margaret Bender. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. xx + 187 pp., illustrations, preface, introduction, index, bibliogra- phy. $49.94 cloth, $19.95 paper.) Nancy Shoemaker...

...Jonas Bens Abstract When representatives of the Cherokee nation went to the US Supreme Court in 1831 to sue the state of Georgia, they initiated a paradoxical endeavor. They argued that they were a “foreign state,” but subjected themselves at the same time to the jurisdiction of the court...

...Carl Benn John Norton (1770–1831?) was one of the most important Iroquois leaders in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and the author of a thousand-page manuscript on First Nations history, a journey he made to the Cherokee country, and his adventures in the War of 1812. However...

... of their historical subjects, while Martin rethinks conversion through the work of Cherokee seminarian 136 Book Reviews David Brown. Martin argues that “Cherokee intellectuals like David Brown sought to convert influential whites to the cause...

...Rose Stremlau The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's Perseverance . By Cushman Ellen . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2011 . v + 238 pp., preface, acknowledgments, notes, references, bibliography, index . $34.95 cloth.) Copyright 2013 by American Society...

...Andrew Denson Sustaining the Cherokee Family: Kinship and the Allotment of an Indigenous Nation . By Stremlau Rose . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2011 . xiii + 320 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, bibliography, index . $24.95 paper...

...Angela Pulley Hudson The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story . By Miles Tiya . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . 336 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index . $32.50 cloth.) Copyright...

...Clint Carroll Natural resource management in Indian country today must continually address colonial histories. In the Cherokee Nation, tribal resource managers are acutely familiar with this history because they deal with its current manifestations daily. This situation reflects both structural...

...Izumi Ishii In the early-nineteenth-century Cherokee Nation, alcohol and politics inextricably intertwined. In defiance of the federal government's attempts to regulate alcohol in Indian country, some Cherokee headmen encouraged the liquor traffic within the Nation and personally profited from its...

... and continuity among the Book Reviews 245 Yankton. It is a powerful demonstration of how the Peyote religion helped the Yankton Sioux to retain and revitalize their culture in an ever-changing world. Slavery in the Cherokee Nation: The Keetoowah Society...

... nonspecialist from reading the entire set. For those who dare to do so, though, the return rate is exemplary. DOI 10.1215/00141801-2009-015 538 Book Reviews Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century. By Fay A. Yarbrough...

... of colonial imposition, colonial ambivalence, and postcolo- nial resistance” (xx). Ensuing chapters investigate postcolonial discourses within the Cherokee Nation and its confrontation with the nation-building impacts of the American Civil War, which, according to Bruyneel, denotes a key moment...

...Ellen Cushman The development of the Cherokee syllabary from script to print happened during a time in the tribe's history when great pressures were upon them to civilize, adopt English and the Roman alphabet, and establish a government. Between 1821 and 1828, the syllabary itself went through...

...Andrew Denson Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 . By Parins James W. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2013 . xvi + 276 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, selected bibliography, index . $34.95 cloth.) Copyright 2015...

...John P. Bowes Demanding the Cherokee Nation: Indian Autonomy and American Culture, 1830-1900. By Andrew Denson. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xi + 327 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, bibliography, index. $55.00 cloth.) American Society for Ethnohistory 2007 Book...

..., the comprehensive approach taken results in one of the most comprehensive reconstructions of the bio- logical and cultural effects of Spanish contact on New World populations. This book will surely become a model for future studies. 10.1215/00141801-2007-071 The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War...

...Rachel Smith Purvis Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation . By Obermeyer Brice . ( Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 2009 . xviii + 319 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, introduction, notes, bibliography, index . $45.00 cloth.) Copyright 2011 by American Society...

...Jason Baird Jackson Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game: At the Center of Ceremony and Identity . By Zogry Michael J. . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2010 . x + 328 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, conclusion, notes, bibliography, index . $49.95 cloth...

...Andrew Denson Serving the Nation: Cherokee Sovereignty and Social Welfare, 1800–1907 . By Reed Julie L. . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2016 . xix+356 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, map, illustrations, bibliography, index . $34.95 cloth.) Copyright 2017 by American...

...Bridget Groat Roots of Our Renewal: Ethnobotany and Cherokee Environmental Governance . By Carroll Clint . ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 . xv + 256 pp., note to the reader, introduction, conclusion, acknowledgments, appendix, notes, bibliography, index . $87.50...