Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1993
Abstract
Russell Thornton provides a scholarly and comprehensive review of the population variations of an American Indian tribe after contact first with European and then United States' cultural, institutional, and economic policies. He notes population fluctuations along with historical events that occurred after first contact. Governmental policies including accommodation, paternalism, assimilation, extermination, and relocation and isolation of the Cherokees clearly affected population totals. Thornton concludes by acknowledging the Cherokees' own never-ending search for self-determination and viability.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly 13:1 (Winter 1993). Copyright © 1993 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.