Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907–1970

Synopsis

Introduction: Recovering An Early Twentieth-century Cherokee National Imaginary -- Citizenship, Land, And Law In John Milton Oskison's Black Jack Davy -- Oppositional Discourse And Revisionist Historiography In Rachel Caroline Eaton's John Ross And The Cherokee Indians -- Blood, Belonging, And Modernist Form In Lynn Riggs's The Cherokee Night -- Cherokee Trans/national Stateswomanship In The Nonfiction Writings Of Ruth Muskrat Bronson -- Afterword. Kirby Brown. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.