Bad fruits of the civilized tree : alcohol & the sovereignty of the Cherokee nation /
Bad Fruits of the Civilized Treeexamines the role of alcohol among the Cherokees through more than two hundred years, from contact with white traders until Oklahoma reached statehood in 1907. While acknowledging the addictive and socially destructive effects of alcohol, Izumi Ishii also examines the...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press
©2008.
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| Series: | Indians of the Southeast.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1dfnv9f |
Table of Contents:
- Alcohol arrives
- A struggle for sovereignty
- The moral high ground
- Alcohol and dislocation
- A nation under siege
- Cherokee temperance, American reform, and Oklahoma statehood.