A History of the Cherokee Nation Diné (Navajo) Pamela Palmater

Pamela Palmater

Buffy Yellowbird knows exactly what she wants

and plants in the useful and decorative arts including uses for household items

This book reveals the tensions between emergent racial ideology and the resilience of kinship that shaped the historical trajectory of regional tribal society to the present

Geniusz brings the plants to life with narratives that explain their uses

A History of the Cherokee Nation Diné (Navajo) Pamela PalmaterWritten shortly before her death in 1938, Rachel Caroline Eaton's A History of the Cherokee Nation is the celebrated Cherokee historian's magnum opus and a work whose grounding in Cherokee tradition and perspective makes it unique in the annals of American history. The book spans the years from pre contact to what Eaton feared would be the Cherokee Nation's demise after allotment and Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Its later chapters chronicle post Civil