... 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...

... 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...

...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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... concerning ethnobotany and elder knowledge. Carroll worked as a researcher for the Cherokee Nation Natural Resources Department and collaborated with tribal elders on an ethnohistory project focused on preserving plant and medicinal knowledge. The incorporation of a relationship-based approach to resource...

...Bryan C. Rindfleisch Cherokee Medicine, Colonial Germs: An Indigenous Nation’s Fight against Smallpox, 1518–1824 . By Kelton Paul . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2015 . ix + 281 pp., acknowledgments, introduction, illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index . $29.95...

...David La Vere The Cherokee Diaspora: An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity . By Smithers Gregory D. . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2015 . 358 pp., prologue, epilogue, glossary, illustrations, abbreviations, notes, notes about sources, acknowledgments...

...Justin Estreicher jtestreicher@email.wm.edu Sovereign Entrepreneurs: Cherokee Small-Business Owners and the Making of Economic Sovereignty . By Courtney Lewis . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2019 . xviii + 290 pp., 21 halftones, 3 maps, 2 graphs, appendixes...

...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...

...Jane Dinwoodie Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest over Southern Memory . By Denson Andrew . ( Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 2017 . viii+304 pp., 14 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index . $29.95 paper.) Copyright 2018 by American Society...

...Amanda J. Sutton Archaeological and historical analyses of pluralistic environments and culture contact necessitate a comparison of scale between the situated actions of individuals and the broader patterns of history. Center Places and Cherokee Towns provides that comparison in a style...

...Lauren Brand Ned Christie: The Creation of an Outlaw and Cherokee Hero . By Devon A. Mihesuah . ( Norman : University of Oklahoma Press , 2018 . xiv +252 pp., illustrations, acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 cloth.) Copyright 2019 by American Society...