The Forgotten Warriors: Keetoowah Abolitionists, Revitalization, the Search for Modernity and the Struggle for Autonomy in the Cherokee Nation, 1800-1866

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dc.contributor.advisorMetcalf, Warren
dc.creatorKing, Patricia Jo Lynn
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-27T21:26:39Z
dc.date.available2019-04-27T21:26:39Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractMy research focuses on the revitalization of the Cherokee Keetoowah
dc.description.abstractSociety in 1858 in Indian Territory just twenty years after the tribe's removal from their southeastern homelands. I contend that `Keetoowah' was much more than just a religious organization with political undertones. Keetoowah represented an entire way of life, a way to order society, to provide a cultural backbone for the community, and to give meaning to their rapidly changing world. Rather than escaping modernization by tying themselves to the past, the Keetoowahs used selective adaptation to reconstruct a unique sociopolitical system that allowed them to engage in progressive interaction both
dc.description.abstractinside and outside their communities. .
dc.description.abstractEven in earliest known times, the Keetoowahs occupied shifting roles
dc.description.abstractwithin Cherokee society, sometimes acting as religious leaders and sometimes as war leaders depending on necessity, as well as their individual level of experience and achievement. This is very much in keeping with the overall nature of the historic Cherokee social structure itself, with its focus on both gadugi (the collective good) and on personal independence. In the antebellum years, the Keetoowahs were deeply engaged in the mainstream socioeconomic trends and debates of the day; education, capitalism, industry, fraternalism, politics, and labor issues, particularly slavery. In their role as religious men, they accepted the
dc.description.abstractfaith and support of the `emancipating Baptist' missionaries around them, and as warriors, they fought tirelessly to abolish slavery in the Cherokee Nation, a struggle that led directly to the Society's revitalization.
dc.format.extent366 pages
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dc.identifier99199091302042
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244/318707
dc.languageen_US
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dc.subjectCherokee Indians--Societies, etc
dc.subjectCherokee Indians--Ethnic identity
dc.subjectSecret societies--Oklahoma--History
dc.thesis.degreePh.D.
dc.titleThe Forgotten Warriors: Keetoowah Abolitionists, Revitalization, the Search for Modernity and the Struggle for Autonomy in the Cherokee Nation, 1800-1866
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