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An ethnographic study of Snowbird, North Carolina, a remote mountain community of Cherokees who are regarded as the most traditional, but also the most adaptive, members of the entire tribe. Neely explains this paradox and portrays the inhabitants' daily lives and culture.

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Neely presents a thoughtful, readable study of a harmonious people coping with the pressures of preserving their traditions and adapting to change.-- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Based on fieldwork in Snowbird in the 1970s, Neely examines a variety of issues from ethnic identity to intratribal, intertribal, and interracial relations. . . . This important book brings to scholarly attention the existence of an Indian community we know little about.--American Indian Quarterly Although the Eastern Band of the Cherokee have been written about at length by anthropologists and scholars--from Hernando de Soto's chroniclers to today's anthropologists, and although the Cherokee have figured in novels, poetry, and drama, Sharlotte Neely 's work gives us fresh perspective. Snowbird Cherokees not only provides valuable insights into Cherokee culture but also takes a look at a little-known and little-studied Cherokee community in the remote Snowbird Mountains of western North Carolina.--Georgia Historical Quarterly Neely presents a thoughtful, readable study of a harmonious people coping with the pressures of preserving their traditions and adapting to change. --Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Neely presents a thoughtful, readable study of a harmonious people coping with the pressures of preserving their traditions and adapting to change. -- Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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Sharlotte Neely is a professor of anthropology at Northern Kentucky University.

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