Background
Perdue, Theda was born on April 2, 1949 in McRae, Georgia, United States. Daughter of James Howard and Ouida (Davis) Perdue.
( The five largest southeastern Indian groups-the Cheroke...)
The five largest southeastern Indian groups-the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles-were forced to emigrate west to the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) in the 1830s. Here, from WPA interviews are those Indians' own stories of the troubled years between the Civil War and Oklahoma statehood-a period of extraordinary turmoil. During this period, Oklahoma Indians functioned autonomously, holding their own elections, enforcing their own laws, and creating their own society from a mixture of old Indian customs and the new ways of the whites. The WPA informants describe the economic realities of the era: a few wealthy Indians, the rest scraping a living out of subsistence farming, hunting, and fishing. They talk about education and religion-Native American and Christian-as well as diversions of the time: horse races, fairs, ball games, cornstalk shooting, and traditional ceremonies such as the Green Corn Dance.
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(In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shif...)
In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted its policy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocating them, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokees from their homelands. This journey of exile became known as the Trail of Tears. Historians Perdue and Green reveal the government?s betrayals and the divisions within the Cherokee Nation, follow the exiles along the Trail of Tears, and chronicle the hardships found in the West. In its trauma and tragedy, the Cherokee diaspora has come to represent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in the name of nation building?and in their determined survival, it represents the resilience of the Native American spirit.
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(The five largest southeastern Indian groups - the Cheroke...)
The five largest southeastern Indian groups - the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles - were forced to emigrate west to the Indian territory (now Oklahoma) in the 1830s. Here, from WPA interviews, are those Indians' own stories of the troubled years between the Civil War and Oklahoma statehood - a period of extraordinary turmoil. During this period, Oklahoma Indians functioned autonomously, holding their own elections, enforcing their own laws, and creating their own society from a mixture of old Indian customs and the new ways of the whites. The WPA informants describe the economic realities of the era: a few wealthy Indians, the rest scraping a living out of subsistence farming, hunting, and fishing. They talk about education and religion - Native American and Christian - as well as diversions of the time: horse races, fairs, ball games, cornstalk shooting, and traditional ceremonies such as the Green Corn Dance.
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(In Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distingu...)
In Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distinguished Professor of Southern Culture at UNC at Chapel Hill, discusses the history, life-style, and culture of the native people of the region before the arrival of Europeans. She expands this discussion to include the interaction of the Indians with white settlers during the colonial period. In separate chapters, Perdue chronicles the experiences of the Cherokees and the Lumbees in the 19th and 20th centuries. She concludes this study with a discussion of Native Carolinians today and a detailed timeline of important dates and events in North Carolina Indian history.
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Perdue, Theda was born on April 2, 1949 in McRae, Georgia, United States. Daughter of James Howard and Ouida (Davis) Perdue.
AB, Mercer University, 1972. Master of Arts, University Georgia, 1974. Doctor of Philosophy, University Georgia, 1976.
From assistant professor to associate professor history Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, 1975—1983. Professor history Clemson University, South Carolina, 1983—1988, University Kentucky, Lexington, 1988—1998, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, since 1998. Editor Indians of Southeast, University Nebraska Press, Lincoln, l985—.
Consultant Smithsonian Institution, Washington, l989. Fulbright lecturer, New Zealand, l988.
(The five largest southeastern Indian groups - the Cheroke...)
( The five largest southeastern Indian groups-the Cheroke...)
(In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shif...)
(In Native Carolinians, Dr. Theda Perdue, Atlanta Distingu...)
(Book by Perdue, Theda)
Member American History Association, Organization American Historians, American Society for Ethnohistory, Southern History Association, Southern Association for Women Historians (president l985-86).