This month the Government and Heritage Library is highlighting Native American Heritage resources. Check out November’s ExploreNC page here: http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ghl/themes/november.html.
Native American Heritage
New Additions: Native American Heritage
New additions to the collections of the Government and Heritage Library:
Brothers Born of One Mother: British-Native American Relations in the Colonial South
east, by Michelle LeMaster. Moving past the boundaries of tribes and colonies, the author presents a study of gender and kinship among Native Americans and Anglo-Americans in the colonial South, and recounts how gender and family ties created new diplomatic norms.
Deconstructing the Cherokee Nation: Town, Region and Nation Among Eighteenth-Century Cherokees, by Tyler Boulware. This book shows how clan, town and regional loyalties defined Cherokee society in the 18th century and illuminates the multi-layered, dynamic nature of nationhood and Native identity.
Reconstructing the Native South: American Indian Literature and the Lost Cause, by Melanie Taylor. The author examines literature written by descendants of tribes who evaded Removal and maintained ties with their homeland explaining why the cultures of the U.S. South, and its Native American survivors, have far more in common than geography.
Taking of American Indian Lands in the Southeast: A History of Territorial Cessions and Forced Relocations 1607-1840, by David Miller. Relying on the words of those involved, the author provides an historical account of the forced westward relocation of Native Americans. Cultural aspects of the Creek, Cherokee and Seminole nations of the time period are explored in detail.
Up From These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood, by Leonard Lambert as told to Michael Lambert. This book presents a candid memoir of what it was like growing up in the 1930s and 1940s on the reservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and the realities behind rural poverty and the Indian experience in the first half of the 20th Century.
Library materials will be available for check out at the Government and Heritage Library by North Carolina State Agency employees or may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan request at your local public library. To view other new library acquisitions, click here.
Native American Heritage Month 2012
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Once again, it is that time of year: Native American Heritage Month. This year, I want to highlight another book on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians that I think is a valuable source for those in the Cherokee tribe who stayed behind during the Trail of Tears.
Bowen, Jeff. North Carolina Eastern Cherokee Indian Census 1898-1899, 1904, 1906, 1909-1912, 1914. Signal Mountain, Tenn. : Mountain Press, 1998.
New Additions: The Revolutionary War Era
New additions to the collections of the Government and Heritage Library:
General Nathanael Greene and the American Revolution in the South, Gregory Massey and Jim Piecuch, Eds. Acclaimed as the second most important military figure in the Revolution, this book offers new perspectives on the leadership and actions of Nathanael Green, a commander who successfully coordinated the actions of disparate kinds of soldiers.
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War, by Maya Jasonoff. The author presents an untold history of the loyalists who fought for Britain in the American Revolution and their fate after losing the war. The book describes the varied outcomes for 60,000 men and women, black and white, and their migrations to Canada, the Caribbean, Africa, and India.
Revolutionary Negotiations: Indians, Empires and Diplomats in the Founding of America, by Leonard Sadosky. From efforts to unite the 13 states to negotiations with European and Indian nations, this book examines the United States’ early diplomatic imperatives and challenges. Diplomatic and Native American history are both explored to shed light on early diplomacy in United States.
Library materials will be available for check out at the Government and Heritage Library by North Carolina State Agency employees or may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan request at your local public library. To view other new library acquisitions, click here.
