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Post by blackcrowheart on Jan 14, 2008 0:31:06 GMT -5
Snowbird Cherokees: People of Persistence. (book reviews) American Indian Quarterly, The, June, 1993 by Shoemaker, Nancy Content provided in partnership with
Neeley, Sharlotte. Athens: University of Geordia Press, 1991. x + 178 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00 cloth
This book is an anthropological study of Snowbird, a small Cherokee community in North Carolina. Based on fieldwork in Snowbird in the 1970s, Neely examines a variety of issues from ethnic identity to intratribal, intertribal, and interracial relations. Her method consists primarily of a "situational analysis" of two events: a political controversy arising from an election of tribal council representatives and the annual Trail of Tears ...
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