Sustaining the Cherokee Family

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through sy

By 2009, reverberations of economic crisis spread from the United States around the globe. As corporations across the United States folded, however, small busin

This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the presen

"American Indian women have traditionally played vital roles in social hierarchies, including at the family, clan, and tribal levels. In the Cherokee Nation, sp