A History of the Cherokee Nation Diné (Navajo) As the population of native

As the population of native speakers ages

This book reveals the tensions between emergent racial ideology and the resilience of kinship that shaped the historical trajectory of regional tribal society to the present

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A History of the Cherokee Nation Diné (Navajo) As the population of nativeWritten shortly before her death in 1938, Rachel Caroline Eaton's A History of the Cherokee Nation is the celebrated Cherokee historian's magnum opus and a work whose grounding in Cherokee tradition and perspective makes it unique in the annals of American history. The book spans the years from pre contact to what Eaton feared would be the Cherokee Nation's demise after allotment and Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Its later chapters chronicle post Civil