{"product_id":"their-determination-to-remain-a-cherokee-communitys-resistance-to-the-trail-of-tears-in-north-carolina-paperback","title":"Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLance Greene\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe remarkable story of a North Carolina Cherokee community who avoided forced removal on the Trail of Tears\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During the 1838 forced Cherokee removal by the US government, a number of close-knit Cherokee communities in the Southern Appalachian Mountains refused to relinquish their homelands, towns, and way of life. Using a variety of tactics, hundreds of Cherokees avoided the encroaching US Army and remained in the region. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In his book \u003ci\u003eTheir Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community's Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina, \u003c\/i\u003e Lance Greene explores the lives of wealthy plantation owners Betty and John Welch who lived on the southwestern edge of the Cherokee Nation. John was Cherokee and Betty was White. Although few Cherokees in the region participated in slavery, the Welches held nine African Americans in bondage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e During removal, the Welches assisted roughly 100 Cherokees hiding in the steep mountains. Afterward, they provided land for these Cherokees to rebuild a new community, Welch's Town. Betty became a wealthy and powerful plantation mistress because her husband could no longer own land. Members of Welch's Town experienced a transitional period in which they had no formal tribal government or clear citizenship yet felt secure enough to reestablish a townhouse, stickball fields, and dance grounds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Greene's innovative study uses an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating historical narrative and archaeological data, to examine how and why the Welches and members of Welch's Town avoided expulsion and reestablished their ways of life in the midst of a growing White population who resented a continued Cherokee presence. The Welch strategy included Betty's leadership in demonstrating outwardly their participation in modern Western lifestyles, including enslavement, as John maintained a hidden space--within the boundaries of their land--for the continuation of traditional Cherokee cultural practices.\u003ci\u003e Their Determination to Remain\u003c\/i\u003e explores the complexities of race and gender in this region of the antebellum South and the real impacts of racism on the community. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLance Greene is associate professor of anthropology at Wright State University and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Indians and the Market Economy, 1775-1850\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.42 x 8.58 x 5.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 16, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42930022416519,"sku":"9780817361198","price":48.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/s1HjgU09fP9780817361198_b3e6dfcf-c471-4381-a374-4f5a4cae5ad8.webp?v=1753172103","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/their-determination-to-remain-a-cherokee-communitys-resistance-to-the-trail-of-tears-in-north-carolina-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}