The purpose of my thesis is to explore how the everyday life of the Cherokee women is built up through the analysis of a poem, written in the newspaper of the Cherokee Phoenix and Indians’ Advocate, to discuss the autonomy of women, and taking into consideration how different factors, such as trade, war, and the forced removal influenced their position within society. I introduce Wilma Pearl Mankiller, a woman with Cherokee ancestry, with the help of a movie, The Cherokee Word for Water, who became the first woman chief of the Cherokee Nation elected officially. By analyzing the movie from political, cultural, and social perspectives a picture is formed about the Cherokee Nation and how the self-help project of Mankiller helped to unify the...
From the late 18th century to the 1820s, the Cherokee Indians experienced a profound cultural transf...
Since the late nineteenth century, ethnographers have studied the Cherokee sacred writings known col...
Threats to culture Transformation of gender roles of the 19th century Three cataclysmic events roc...
My work offers a comparative examination of the use of feminism and Indian identity in the careers o...
ABSTRACT This thesis is an effort to find out the roles of Cherokee women in the eighteenth century ...
Twenty-one years before the forced-removal of Cherokee people from their native lands east of the Mi...
ABSTRACT This thesis is an effort to find out the roles of Cherokee women in the eighteenth century ...
Wilma Mankiller was a first-the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the ...
News release announces that Wilma Mankiller will speak on Contemporary Tribal Issues as part of UD...
As the eyes of the late 18th century Americans fell upon the territories occupied by the Cherokee Na...
The relationships between language, culture, and thought are dauntingly complex and have been explor...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2011. Major: History. Advisors: David Chang, Jean M....
In the hope of avoiding removal from their homelands in the Southeast and coexisting with white Amer...
Death of the Celluloid Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film traces and analyses the repre...
Involvement of indigenous communities in the care and curation of their material culture and their s...
From the late 18th century to the 1820s, the Cherokee Indians experienced a profound cultural transf...
Since the late nineteenth century, ethnographers have studied the Cherokee sacred writings known col...
Threats to culture Transformation of gender roles of the 19th century Three cataclysmic events roc...
My work offers a comparative examination of the use of feminism and Indian identity in the careers o...
ABSTRACT This thesis is an effort to find out the roles of Cherokee women in the eighteenth century ...
Twenty-one years before the forced-removal of Cherokee people from their native lands east of the Mi...
ABSTRACT This thesis is an effort to find out the roles of Cherokee women in the eighteenth century ...
Wilma Mankiller was a first-the first woman Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, the ...
News release announces that Wilma Mankiller will speak on Contemporary Tribal Issues as part of UD...
As the eyes of the late 18th century Americans fell upon the territories occupied by the Cherokee Na...
The relationships between language, culture, and thought are dauntingly complex and have been explor...
University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. May 2011. Major: History. Advisors: David Chang, Jean M....
In the hope of avoiding removal from their homelands in the Southeast and coexisting with white Amer...
Death of the Celluloid Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film traces and analyses the repre...
Involvement of indigenous communities in the care and curation of their material culture and their s...
From the late 18th century to the 1820s, the Cherokee Indians experienced a profound cultural transf...
Since the late nineteenth century, ethnographers have studied the Cherokee sacred writings known col...
Threats to culture Transformation of gender roles of the 19th century Three cataclysmic events roc...
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