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american indian
American Indians
archaeology
artifacts
Author_Christina Taylor Beard-Moose
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ceramics
ceremonial complex
cherokee
cherokee culture
cherokee nation
climate
cultural studies
culture
Early Archaic
Eastern United States
environment
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ethnohistory
excavations
farming
fauna
fishing
geology
habitats
hunting
identity
indigenous people
Indigenous societies
material culture
Middle Archaic
Middle Woodland
migration
mounds
native american
native american culture
native american economy
native american history
native american traditions
native american tribes
Native Americans
Paleoindians
plants
Pleistocene
pottery
projectile points
public archaeology
settlement
shell middens
shellfish
southeastern archaeology
subsistence
violence
warfare
water transportation
Woodland period
Product details
- ISBN 9780817355135
- Weight: 322g
- Dimensions: 154 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jan 2009
- Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A major economic industry among American Indian tribes is the public promotion and display of aspects of their cultural heritage in a wide range of tourist venues. Few do it better than the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, whose homeland is the Qualla Boundary of North Carolina. Through extensive research into the work of other scholars dating back to the late 1800s and interviews with a wide range of contemporary Cherokees, Beard-Moose presents the two faces of the Cherokee people. One is the public face that populates the powwows, dramatic presentations, museums, and myriad roadside craft locations. The other is the private face whose homecoming, Indian fairs, traditions, belief system, community strength, and cultural heritage are threatened by the very activities that put food on their tables.Constructing an ethnohistory of tourism and comparing the experiences of the Cherokee with the Florida Seminoles and Southwestern tribes, this work brings into sharp focus the fine line between promoting and selling Indian culture.
Christina Taylor Beard-Moose is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at Suffolk County Community College, Ammerman Campus, in Selden, New York.
