'Our share of land' : the Cherokee Nation, the federal government and the citizenship status of the freedpeople, 1866-1907

This thesis explores the debates surrounding the status of Cherokee freedpeople in the final four decades of the nineteenth century. Despite being granted full citizenship in the 1866 Reconstruction Treaty signed by the United States and the Cherokee Nation in 1866, the nature of these rights remain...

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Main Author: Bawden, Amanda
Published: University of East Anglia 2016
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Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.716415