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  • The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears

    by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green ...
    Today, a fraction of the Cherokee people remains in their traditional homeland in the southern Appalachians. Most Cherokees were forcibly relocated to eastern Oklahoma in the early nineteenth century. In 1830 the U.S. government shifted its policy from one of trying to assimilate American Indians to one of relocating them and proceeded to drive seventeen thousand Cherokee people west of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540–1866

    by Theda Perdue ...
    Slavery was practiced in North America long before Europeans arrived on these shores, bringing their own version of this “peculiar institution.” Unlike the European institution, however, Native American slavery was a function of warfare among tribes, replenishment of population lost through intertribal conflict or disease, and establishment and preservation of tribal standards of behavior.Theda ... Read more

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  • North American Indians

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • North American Indians

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction

    by Theda Perdue;Michael D. Green ...
    When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Making a Difference

    My Fight for Native Rights and Social Justice

    by Ada Deer, Theda Perdue ...
    Series series New Directions in Native American Studies Series
    2019 National Native American Hall of Fame InducteeThis stirring memoir is the story of Ada Deer, the first woman to serve as head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Deer begins, “I was born a Menominee Indian. That is who I was born and how I have lived.” She proceeds to narrate the first eighty-three years of her life, which are characterized by her tireless campaigns to reverse the forced ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southeast

    by Theda Perdue, Michael Green ...
    Series series The Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture
    Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into many distinct tribes, the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complex ancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizes their history through each of its integral phases: the complex and elaborate societies that emerged and flourished in the Pre-Columbian period; the triple curse of ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Sifters

    Native American Women's Lives

    Edited by Theda Perdue ...
    Series series Viewpoints on American Culture
    In this edited volume, Theda Perdue, a nationally known expert on Indian history and southern women's history, offers a rich collection of biographical essays on Native American women. From Pocahontas, a Powhatan woman of the seventeenth century, to Ada Deer, the Menominee woman who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1990s, the essays span four centuries. Each one recounts the experiences ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

  • Race and the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition of 1895

    by Theda Perdue ...
    The Cotton States Exposition of 1895 was a world’s fair in Atlanta held to stimulate foreign and domestic trade for a region in an economic depression. Theda Perdue uses the exposition to examine the competing agendas of white supremacist organizers and the peoples of color who participated.White organizers had to demonstrate that the South had solved its race problem in order to attract business ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Mixed Blood Indians

    Racial Construction in the Early South

    by Theda Perdue ...
    On the southern frontier in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European men—including traders, soldiers, and government agents—sometimes married Native women. Children of these unions were known by whites as "half-breeds." The Indian societies into which they were born, however, had no corresponding concepts of race or "blood." Moreover, counter to European customs and laws, Native ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Half Sisters of History

    Southern Women and the American Past

    by Jacqueline Jones, Theda Perdue, Deborah Gray White, Anne Firor Scott ...
    Long relegated to the margins of historical research, the history of women in the American South has rightfully gained prominence as a distinguished discipline. A comprehensive and much-needed tribute to southern women’s history, Half Sisters of History brings together the most important work in this field over the past twenty years.This collection of essays by pioneering scholars surveys the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Folly of Jim Crow

    Rethinking the Segregated South

    by Natalie J. Ring, Melissa Stein, Theda Perdue, Peter Wallenstein, Mia Bay, Jane Dailey ...
    Series Book 43 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
    Although the origins, application, and socio-historical implications of the Jim Crow system have been studied and debated for at least the last three-quarters of a century, nuanced understanding of this complex cultural construct is still evolving, according to Stephanie Cole and Natalie J. Ring, coeditors of The Folly of Jim Crow: Rethinking the Segregated South. Indeed, they suggest, scholars ... Read more

    $8.69 USD