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"I Got To Do Something To Keep My Family Up": The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, 1920-1940

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posted on 2023-09-07, 05:06 authored by Mattea V. Sanders

This thesis examines the economic, social, and cultural life of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, a federally recognized tribe in Western North Carolina, from 1920 to 1940. It argues that from 1920 to 1930 industrial logging and agriculture was the main source of income however this changed in 1932 when the Civilian Conservation Corps-Indian Division, a program of the Indian New Deal, began on the reservation. The CCC-ID changed the Eastern Band's relationship to the land, to the communities around itself, and most of all to the federal government. This thesis argues for a middle ground in interpreting the history of the relationship between the federal government and the Eastern Band through complicating the standard narrative of the federal government being saviors and the Eastern Band as victims.

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American University

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Degree awarded: M.A. History. American University

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http://hdl.handle.net/1961/16586

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American University. Department of History

Degree level

  • Masters

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10602

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