Description: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the federal government sought to forcibly assimilate Native Americans into American society through systematized land allotment. Stremlau illuminates the impact of this policy on the Cherokee Nation, particularly within individual families and communities in modern-day northeastern Oklahoma.
Review Quotes: "The level of in-depth detail Stremlau provides on each family is amazing. . . . Intimate details of familial relationships [spanning] generations . . . allow the reader to better understand the cascading events of the latter part of the nineteenth century into the first third of the twentieth century."--William Welge, director of the research division of the Oklahoma Historical Society