New South Indians: Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century

by Christopher Arris Oakley

The Eastern Band's economic decisions of the 1900s did not occur in a vacuum. In fact, these decisions reflected regional changes and the broader development of the post-Civil War American South. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians formally incorporated under North Carolina law in the 1880s, and their economic policies evolved as the country experienced Jim Crow segregation, the Great Depression, World War II, and the civil rights movement. During...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621904040
• ISBN13: 9781621904045
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.2"