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John Marrant’s A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, a Black (1785) draws on geographical and historical imaginaries between the Cherokee and the British in the southeastern US from the 1720s through the American Revolutionary War. Comparing eighteenth-century southeastern Indigenous and European colonial maps with Marrant’s narrative mapping reveals Marrant’s navigation of the same spaces and networks of relation that were coming under colonial management. As a “go-between,” Marrant negotiates Cherokee and other Indigenous nations’ relations, as well as furnishes a rare glimpse into Black and Indigenous relations. Marrant’s Narrative reconnects to a legacy of Cherokee and British negotiations in addition to Black loyalist networks. Through his narrative mapping, Marrant performs as a cartographer and mediator between the Cherokee and the British to forge a new path, a “continuing city,” to maintain his freedom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

"Star Territory: Printing the Universe in Nineteenth-Century America" by Gordon Fraser explores the role of astronomy in early American attempts to seize territory and consolidate global power. Fraser examines how print technology, specifically newspapers and almanacs, mediated Americans' diverse approaches to astronomical study. The book highlights the ways in which marginalized groups, such as Black Americans and Cherokee Nation, used astronomy to imagine freedom, resist settler-colonial erasure, and assert sovereignty. Fraser also discusses the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, which played a crucial role in enhancing America's global influence. The book concludes by reflecting on the continued relevance of early American engagements with space and the need to approach the universe with wonder and respect. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the cholera epidemic in Arkansas Territory from 1832-1834. Topics discussed include the twenty-four-year-old Choctaw who died of cholera in November 1832, social dynamics surrounding the cholera epidemic, and the intensity of the outbreaks which were attributed to Cherokees' and Choctaws' behavior.

This article examines the efforts of missionaries in Cape Palmas, Liberia, to create written texts in the Grebo language using Roman script. Led by Reverend John Leighton Wilson, the missionaries printed various texts, including primers, religious books, and Bible stories, with the aim of teaching the Grebo language, Christian values, and Anglo-American social ideals. The texts also provide insights into the cultural and linguistic exchanges between the missionaries and the Grebo people. Additionally, the article discusses the smaller tracts printed at the Fair Hope mission, which were widely distributed and may have served as physical markers of affiliation with the mission and offered protection to Grebos in a politically volatile climate. Overall, the article highlights the complex relationship between missionaries, settlers, and Grebos in Cape Palmas. [Extracted from the article]

Brian Edwards and Brett Riggs have been awarded the 2023 Helen G. Edmonds-Raymond Gavins Award for their articles in the North Carolina Historical Review. The award, presented by the Historical Society of North Carolina, includes a check for $300. The articles explored various topics in North Carolina history, including land inheritance practices, Episcopalian ministers, the memory of slavery, resistance by the Cherokee Nation, streetcars, train car expositions, a newspaper editor's impact on the Outer Banks, the career of Alfred Lee Bulwinkle, and the perspective of Japanese international students in a college town during segregation. The articles were praised for their use of primary and secondary sources and their original interpretations. [Extracted from the article]

The article focuses on the narrator's reflections on his grandfather's life and the deep cultural heritage of the Cherokee people in North Arkansas. Topics include the grandfather's unique ability to communicate with nature, the systemic challenges faced by Native Americans, and the personal impact of preserving traditional knowledge and practices.

Despite being the first Native American to author a novel, The Life and Adventures of Joaquín Murieta (1854), John Rollin Ridge and his writings have long troubled scholars. Ridge's focus on Mexican Americans, racist portrayal of California Indians, and embrace of US belonging refuse easy analysis within the single identity category-focused frameworks of Native studies and Chicanx studies, and his presence in gold rush California as a Cherokee settler complicates scholarly approaches to the racial history of California. This essay uses a historicized engagement with racial formation theory to reevaluate Ridge's work, including his novel, newspaper article in The True Daily Delta, and Hesperian magazine articles. Diverging from prior scholarship that reads Ridge's work through the lens of present-day racial categories, this study approaches racial categories as shifting, connected to structures of power, and imbricated with gender to understand how Ridge thought of himself in relation to both California Indians and Mexican Americans and how he tried to intervene into the American racial discourse. Ridge desired recognition and inclusion from the US settler state, and he used hegemonic notions of masculinity to make his case. This prompted him to distance himself from those unable to conform to standards of appropriate manhood. I contend that Ridge's desire for recognition led him to suggest that his own Cherokee people were more closely related to Mexican Americans than to California Indians. The complexity of Ridge's stance and racial positioning in California demonstrate the possibilities of a reading practice informed by a relational approach to racial formation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The MA in Critical Craft Studies (MACR) program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, which was the first low-residency, full-time graduate program focused on craft studies, has been terminated. However, a special issue of the Journal of Modern Craft has been published, featuring student work from the MACR program. The essays in the special issue explore various aspects of craft, including the historiography of craft, media studies, economics, cultural geography, Black studies, and Indigenous studies. The essays also examine craft in different contexts, such as the classroom, studio, workshop, and various locations in North Carolina. The special issue aims to showcase the research methodology of ethnography and its application in craft scholarship. [Extracted from the article]

The article "Little-Known Accounts of the Lawrence Massacre" edited by William D. Haynes provides an overview of the Lawrence Massacre, a significant event during the Civil War. It discusses the raid led by Confederate guerrilla leader William C. Quantrill on Lawrence, Kansas, in August 1863, resulting in the destruction of the city and the deaths of at least 150 people. The article focuses on three lesser-known accounts written by survivors, which offer valuable firsthand narratives and corroborative details of the event. The text emphasizes the devastating impact of the massacre on civilians and the subsequent crackdown on Confederate sympathizers. [Extracted from the article]

Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) are private nonprofit community-based primary care health care organizations that are charged with providing high-quality comprehensive care that is affordable and accessible. FQHCs are ideally suited for the integration of behavioral health services (BHC). This article reviews the history of FQHCs, the various models of BHC integration, and details of the Cherokee Health Systems integrated model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle's keynote address at the 2024 Appalachian Studies Association Conference, exploring the role of writers in reflecting and respecting specific landscapes and communities. Topics discussed include the significance of Cherokee land and cultural memory, the role of literature in capturing local diversity and stories, and the impact of writing on understanding and preserving cultural values.

This article provides a historical overview of Cherokee printing and the development of the Sequoyah syllabary. Sequoyah invented the syllabary in the early 19th century, which was adopted by the Cherokee Nation in 1825. The first newspaper published by American Indians, the Cherokee Phoenix, was printed in both English and Cherokee using the syllabary. The article also discusses the Cherokee Advocate newspaper, which was published in the 1840s and covered Cherokee government activities and local news. The document concludes by mentioning the modern use of the Cherokee syllabary and provides references for further research. [Extracted from the article]

Stephanie DeGooyer's book, "Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of Naturalization," explores the intersection of law and literature in the context of naturalization. DeGooyer argues that naturalization is a creative process that produces new subjects, similar to the novel itself. The book traces the development of naturalization as a shift in English legal and political understandings of allegiance, from perpetual allegiance to a more contractual model. DeGooyer's study highlights the importance of naturalization in understanding major developments in political theory, legal practice, and literary form during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The book raises questions about the intertwined histories of race, capitalism, the nation-state, and liberalism, and suggests avenues for further research on naturalization and colonialism. [Extracted from the article]

The article evaluates the temporary exhibition titled "Disruption" at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee, North Carolina (N.C.) from September 8, 2022 through December 29, 2023, which seeks to complicate narratives surrounding the Cherokee people, including in regard to history, archaeology and anthropology.

Hill's study emphasizes the continuity of Creek diplomacy while recognizing adaptations in how diplomatic power was wielded and by whom. In his epilogue, Hill unexpectedly leaps from 1818 to 1959-1962 to explain how Miccosukees gained sovereign status by using maritime diplomacy during the Cold War instead of being subsumed into the larger Seminole Tribe of Florida. James L. Hill's impressive examination of Creek (Muskogee) international relationships with other tribes and nations covers 1763 through 1818, the end of the First Seminole War. [Extracted from the article]

This article examines a selection of work by contemporary tattoo artist John Henry Gloyne (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) to understand how tattooing functions as an Indigenous creative practice that can imagine alternative realities and reestablish connections to Native pasts and presents. Gloyne's work redefines contemporary Native tattooing by highlighting its continuing significance and artistic innovations in the present. In doing so, Gloyne's work challenges the settler notion that Native cultural practices are static and stuck in the past. The authors' analysis includes Gloyne's reinvention of Cherokee symbols (water spider and Booger mask tattoos), early/mid-twentieth-century Americana tattoo flash, and his tattoo-inspired painting Sacred Realms: Tobacco Offerings to the Picture Machine. Honma and Francoso employ an analytic of "reimagining" to investigate how Gloyne's work embraces an ethos of experimentation and innovation that moves beyond settler frameworks of comprehension. In order to understand how he challenges various modes of representation and ways of looking that normalize the settler project, they historicize the symbols and motifs found in Gloyne's work. They incorporate interdisciplinary methods of visual analysis, historical recontextualization, and interview data to center Gloyne's unique aesthetic approach, which foregrounds renewed ways of envisioning and embodying Indigenous worlds. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article offers information on the Davis Farm and Savannah Farm archaeological sites in Polk County, Tennessee. It further discusses that Middle to Late Mississippian shell workshop and at least 25 shell gorgets were discovered at the Davis Farm; morphology and iconographic interpretations of triskele gorgets were reviewed in 2020; and Savannah Farm site had a platform mound on it and cultural components ranged from Early Archaic to Historic Cherokee and Woodland pipe found on the site.

Twin Territories was a newspaper in Indian Territory from 1898 to 1905 that included the latest regional news, historical information about various tribes, and the column "What the Curious Want to Know." It also incorporated a variety of photographs of American Indian women, portraits of officials, and landmarks. The newspaper actively sustained a national audience. Ora Eddleman Reed understood her role as an editor in Indian Territory in part as a responsibility to correct inaccurate, dangerous representations of Natives people in the US. In addition to countering stereotypes of women, Twin Territories troubled visions of a backwards civilization, offering instead a portrait of Cherokee people as members of a burgeoning capitalist economy. While concentrating on a particular vision of Indian Territory as a modern, developing space, I seek to place Twin Territories in context as an Indian Territory newspaper of the turn of the twentieth century and to study its key features, including the advice column, its short fiction, and the photographic column, "Portraits of Indian Girls." Such representation is all the more complicated by Eddelman Reed's connection to the Cherokee community. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: The goal of this study is to document connections between the social and physical affordances of home life and development for Cherokee adolescents. Background: The affordances of the home environment have implications for adolescent well‐being. However, research on the connection between most aspects of home life and most components of well‐being for Native American adolescents is limited. Method: This study of 54 Cherokee adolescents considered five dimensions of home life and the relation of these dimensions with four aspects of competence, three positive attitudes, and three psychological problems. Results: Having a rich array of learning materials was related to vocabulary attainment, and having parents who provided productive modeling and encouragement was related to self‐efficacy for academic achievement, social self‐efficacy, and perceived endurance. Family companionship was related to self‐control, social skills, physical strength, and endurance. Native American adolescents living in homes with good household routines and regulations had lower levels of externalizing symptoms. Conclusion: Having a supportive family, good household routines, and a substantial number of learning materials is connected with overall well‐being in Cherokee adolescents. Implications: Results attesting to the value of close and supportive connections with family for Cherokee adolescents offer directions for programs aimed at improving both parenting practice and adolescent adaptive functioning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the evaluation of the Cherokee Nation Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Elimination Program in Oklahoma from 2015 to 2020, which aimed to improve HCV screening, treatment, and cure. Topics include the high rates of HCV infection among American Indian or Alaska Native (AI/AN) persons, the progress made in diagnosing and linking individuals to HCV care, the lower-than-expected treatment initiation rates, and the need to address barriers to treatment initiation for HCV elimination.

Research on harvesting culturally significant food plants can contribute to Indigenous food sovereignty. Relationships drive the process of research, which can affect research methodologies and outcomes. Promoting inclusion and equity in research relationships is necessary to reduce power hierarchies that often position conventional sciences above Indigenous knowledge systems. This paper employs a reflexive lens to consider important dynamics of an ongoing research collaboration between the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, federal agencies, and academic partners focused on the Cherokee food plant VVVVV [transliterated as uwasdiha or wasdi and also recognized as ramps or Allium tricoccum]. An aim of our paper is to contribute to our collective understandings of Indigenous research methodologies (IRM) and collaborative research. Through iterative, place-based conversations and thematic analysis we identify and discuss our process engaging in trust building and relationality as co-authors. Key themes emerging from our work include the importance of (1) developing relationships when conducting collaborative research across multiple knowledge systems and (2) Indigenous food narratives that center traditional foods in research and relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Americanist scholarship often portrays historicization during Cherokee removal in terms of a single Indian-Anglo binary, with images of anachronistic savagery denoting the broadly cultural rejection of Native peoplehood from political modernity. What follows draws on contemporary challenges to such binary formations by Native scholars, however, to offer an alternative to reading removal discourse as the expression of a homogenous ideology predicated on exclusion. By separating the narrativity of Indianness from the representation of Native peoples, the essay situates the "Indian" as the figure through which historicism becomes juridically operative with regard to different crises of settler sovereignty. Accordingly, readings of John Marshall's foundational ruling in Johnson v. Mcintosh (1823), the state of Georgia's attack on Cherokee sovereignty in State v. Tassels (1830), and T. Hartley Crawford's "Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs" (1838) show that the narrativity of Indianness resolves crises for uneven, even competing institutional actors. However, the essay begins with Elias Boudinot's canonical pamphlet, "An Address to the Whites" (1827). If this emergent narrativity conditioned the seizure of Native space on the basis of settler political modernity, then "An Address" can be grasped as appropriating the discourse of "savagery" to historicize Cherokee peoplehood as constituting an independent nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anthropogenic fire is generally accepted by contemporary foresters as shaping historical landscapes in the southern Appalachian Mountains, the ancestral lands of the Cherokee people. However, the consensus on historical Cherokee cultural burning practices is largely limited to artifactual inferences and colonial documents. While the historical importance of fire for Cherokee people is richly woven into their oral histories, information on historical Cherokee cultural burning in forestry literature is typically presented in the context of contemporary land management practices, themselves rooted in settler colonialism and institutionalized conservation strategies. However, in the broader literature and cultural context it is clear that Cherokee cultural burning likely had deeply rooted symbolic importance and twentieth century fire exclusion policies banning certain burning practices flouted Cherokee rights through direct interference and significant landscape-level change. Our research explores Cherokee fire traditions prior to the exclusion era and assesses the impacts of fire exclusion policies on landscape change as well as Cherokee cultural practices and sovereignty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In light of recent calls for decolonial approaches to Indigenous language learning, documentation, and reclamation, we describe the creation of a digital archive initiated and sustained by community collaboration. We work with members of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes to translate and analyze Cherokee texts. Cherokee speakers participate in the narrative commentary around these previously dormant texts. We find three ways in which a digital archive can be leveraged for language reclamation, description, and documentation, while being initiated and sustained by community collaboration: (a) by developing collaborative translation environments across communities of users, (b) by developing software engineering methods to build reliable infrastructure for the archive, and (c) by creating collaborative workflows that center community practices and design insights. Translating historically dormant texts for this archive creates a use‐inspired language act central to language description, documentation, and reclamation. The collective translation process of building this digital archive provides a sense of continuity that grounds language learning in use‐inspired practices. Going forward, we will continue to center speaker and community‐use‐inspired language practice as we expand the archive to support more types of community contributions and other languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the use of living history at the Oconaluftee Indian Village in North Carolina to educate non-Native audiences about tribal culture. It explores the challenges of representing tribal perspectives while adhering to linear notions of time and progress. The village has made changes to offer multiple temporal perspectives and address contemporary issues faced by tribal nations. It also implements a mentoring program for Cherokee teenagers to preserve traditional crafts and culture. While the village still relies on Western-based temporal frameworks for economic reasons, there is potential for living history sites to challenge these paradigms. [Extracted from the article]