Theda Perdue (NHC Fellow, 2003–04)
Project Title
Who Is an Indian? Native Americans in North Carolina, 1500-2000
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2003–04
Theda Perdue prepared second editions of two books: The Cherokee Removal: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford/St. Martin's, forthcoming 2005), and The Cherokees (Chelsea House, forthcoming 2005). She read widely for two other books: one on Indians in the segregated South, and another on the reassertion of tribal identity in the South after 1970.