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"Cherokee women wielded significant power, and history demonstrates that in what is now America, indigenous women often bore the greater workload, both inside and outside the home. During the French and Indian War, Cherokee women resisted a chief's authority, owned family households, were skilled artisans, produced plentiful crops, mastered trade negotiations, and prepared chiefs' feasts. Cherokee culture was lost when the Cherokee Nation began imitating the American form of governance to gain political favor, and white colonists reduced indigenous women's power. This book recounts long-standing Cherokee traditions and their rich histories. It demonstrates Cherokee and indigenous women as independent and strong individuals through feminist and historical perspectives. Readers will find that these women were far ahead of their time and held their own in many remarkable ways"--

During the twentieth century, American Indians across North America organized protests against traditional museum treatment of Native materials and the Native community. In response, museums began to change their methods. Spirited Encounters provides a foundation for understanding museums, examines how museums collect Native materials, and explores protest as a fully American process of addressing grievances. Now that museums and American Indians are working together in the processes of repatriation, this book can help each side understand the other more fully

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: One People, Proud Cherokee, by Karen Coody Cooper -- Black/Cherokee Timeline -- 1. Seven Cherokee Nation Families, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 2. Tears on the Trail, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 3. Free Blacks in Indian Territory, by Daniel F. Littlefield Jr. and Mary Ann Littlefield -- 4. Finding Freedom in Foreign Lands: Henry Bibb and the Abraham Moore Family, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 5. The Fortunate and Unfortunate Children of Shoe Boots, by Tiya Miles -- 6. Stolen Away Aiky, by Celia E. Naylor -- 7. 115-Year-Old Part Negro-Part Cherokee Woman, with comments by Karen Coody Cooper -- 8. Cherokee Slave Revolt of 1842, by Art T. Burton -- 9. Murrell Home: What About the Slaves?, by Shirley Pettengill -- 10. Zachariah Foreman: "The Wealthiest Man…in the Cherokee Nation," by Karen Coody Cooper -- 11. Black Members of the Cherokee National Council, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 12. Outlaw Cherokee Bill versus Lawman Ike Rogers, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 13. Will Rogers's Childhood Mentors, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 14. The Colored High School of the Cherokee Nation, by T.L. Ballenger -- 15. Oilman, Educator, Pamphleteer: George F. Nave, by Mark A. Harrison -- 16. The New Negro's Attitude Toward His Government, by George F. Nave, from a 1917 pamphlet -- 17. Mary Walker Elliott: Who's Your Daddy, Where's Your Mama?, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 18. Civil War Veteran Corporal Allen Lynch, by Karen Coody Cooper -- 19. Lee Street Memories: Growing Up on Depot Hill, by Ty Wilson -- Appendix I. Black Cemeteries in the Cherokee Nation -- Appendix II. Historic Black Baptist Churches, by Joe Wilson and Karen Coody Cooper -- Appendix III. Race Demographics in Cherokee Nation -- Reading List -- Biographical Statements of Contributors -- How the Book Came to Be.

This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. The panel's rigorous synthesis and analysis of existing research leads compellingly to multiple actionable recommendations that, if adopted, would simultaneously lead to healthy and nutritious diets, equitable and inclusive value chains, resilience to shocks and stressors, and climate and environmental sustainability.

Technological and institutional innovations in agri-food systems (AFSs) over the past century have brought dramatic advances in human well-being worldwide. Yet these gains increasingly appear unsustainable due to massive, adverse spillover effects on climate, natural environment, public health and nutrition, and social justice. How can humanity innovate further to bring about AFS transformations that can sustain and expand past progress, while making them healthier for all people and for the planet that must sustain current and future generations? This report was commissioned by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability in response to an invitation from the journal Nature Sustainability, which—in collaboration with its new sister journal, Nature Food—wanted to devote its 2020 expert panel to this topic. The panel brought together experts who come from many different continents and who span a wide range of disciplines and organizations—from industry and universities to social movements, governments, philanthropies, institutional and venture capital investors, and multilateral agencies. The panel synthesized the best current science to describe the present state of the world's AFSs and key external drivers of AFS changes over the next 25–50 years, as well as tease out key lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic experience this year. As is increasingly widely recognized, the costs that farmers and downstream value chain actors incur and the prices consumers pay understate foods' true costs to society once one accounts for adverse environmental, health, and social spillover effects. Inevitable demographic, economic, and climate change in the coming decades will catastrophically aggravate these problems under business-as-usual scenarios. Innovations will be needed to facilitate concerted, coordinated efforts to transition to more healthy, equitable, resilient, and sustainable AFSs.