Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree
ISBN: 9780803216303
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of Nebraska Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Cherokee Indians; Cherokee Indians;

Bad Fruits of the Civilized Tree examines the role of alcohol among the Cherokees through more than two hundred years, from contact with white traders until Oklahoma reached statehood in 1907. While acknowledging the addictive and socially destructive effects of alcohol, Izumi Ishii also examines the ways in which alcohol was culturally integrated into Native society and how it served the overarching economic and political goals of the Cherokee Nation.

Izumi Ishii is a lecturer at the Institute for Language and Culture at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

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