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"Serving the Nation offers a sweeping and powerful exploration of the Cherokee Nation’s development of social services for its people. With keen insight, Julie L. Reed argues that these services and institutions served the Cherokee nation as an assertion of sovereignty and a critique of U.S. policies. Reed also illuminates the everyday lives of Cherokee people as they experienced these changes, telling a grand story of conquest and survivance."" - Cathleen D. Cahill, author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 ""In Serving the Nation, ethnohistorian Julie L. Reed carefully shapes a unique, multifaceted, and essential view of Cherokee life and politics through the lens of social welfare. This wide-ranging study of social service issues and institutions deftly describes traditional community values of kinship obligation and coordinated work and explains how diverse subsets of the Cherokee populace struggled to address human needs in the context of colonial imposition."" - Tiya Miles, author of The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story"

Serving the Nation offers a sweeping and powerful exploration of the Cherokee Nation's development of social services for its people. With keen insight, Julie L. Reed argues that these services and institutions served the Cherokee nation as an assertion of sovereignty and a critique of U.S. policies. Reed also illuminates the everyday lives of Cherokee people as they experienced these changes, telling a grand story of conquest and survivance. - Cathleen D. Cahill, author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 In Serving the Nation, ethnohistorian Julie L. Reed carefully shapes a unique, multifaceted, and essential view of Cherokee life and politics through the lens of social welfare. This wide-ranging study of social service issues and institutions deftly describes traditional community values of kinship obligation and coordinated work and explains how diverse subsets of the Cherokee populace struggled to address human needs in the context of colonial imposition. - Tiya Miles, author of The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story

Serving the Nation offers a sweeping and powerful exploration of the Cherokee Nation's development of social services for its people. With keen insight, Julie L. Reed argues that these services and institutions served the Cherokee nation as an assertion of sovereignty and a critique of U.S. policies. Reed also illuminates the everyday lives of Cherokee people as they experienced these changes, telling a grand story of conquest and survivance. --Cathleen D. Cahill, author of Federal Fathers and Mothers: A Social History of the United States Indian Service, 1869-1933 In Serving the Nation, ethnohistorian Julie L. Reed carefully shapes a unique, multifaceted, and essential view of Cherokee life and politics through the lens of social welfare. This wide-ranging study of social service issues and institutions deftly describes traditional community values of kinship obligation and coordinated work and explains how diverse subsets of the Cherokee populace struggled to address human needs in the context of colonial imposition. --Tiya Miles, author of The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story

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Julie L. Reed (Cherokee Nation) is Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University.

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