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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.