{"product_id":"delaware-tribe-in-a-cherokee-nation-9780803222953","title":"Delaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Delaware Tribe of Oklahoma is an American Indian tribe currently incorporated as part of the larger Cherokee Nation. Originally from the Hudson and Delaware River valleys, the Delawares are neither socially nor historically related to the Cherokees and were incorporated with them simply because they were forced to move to the Cherokee Nation in 1867. The Delawares never assimilated into Cherokee society and culture and today seek federal recognition as a separate tribe to protect their particular cultural and political identity. However, Delaware efforts to achieve federal recognition are complicated by the Cherokee Nation, which does not support Delaware independence as it could potentially compromise Cherokee jurisdiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDelaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation\u003c\/em\u003e is an ethnographic study of the Delaware Tribe and its struggle for federal recognition and political separation from the larger Cherokee Nation. Brice Obermeyer details the Delawares' struggle for self-determination, revealing important insights into the process and politics of federal recognition. This perceptive ethnography of a tribe trying to assert its right to sovereignty and its independence from a larger and more powerful tribe complicates accepted notions of how the federal recognition process works and the effects it has on tribal members and tribal relations. Although many tribes exist today as constituent parts of a larger American Indian tribe, \u003cem\u003eDelaware Tribe in a Cherokee Nation\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to study this phenomenon in Native North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrice Obermeyer is an assistant professor of anthropology at Emporia State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brice Obermeyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.79h x 5.72w x 1.13d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780803222953\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2010 pg. 16\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBrice Obermeyer is an assistant professor of anthropology at Emporia State University.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40473680969843,"sku":"9.7808E+12","price":56.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_05efa7fd-2a2a-407c-8a0e-cfa8530cb27f.jpg?v=1664373153","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/delaware-tribe-in-a-cherokee-nation-9780803222953","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}