From H-Net (h/t to Legal History Blog):

Fay A. Yarbrough. Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the
Nineteenth Century. Philadephia University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008. x + 184 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4056-6; $55.00 (cloth), ISBN
978-0-8122-4056-6.

Reviewed by John Gesick
Published on H-Genocide (March, 2009)
Commissioned by Elisa G. von Joeden-Forgey

Nineteenth-Century Practices, Twenty-First Century Decisions

This seminal study of Cherokee race relations during the antebellum
and post-Civil War eras and their consequences in the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries has broad applications across many
disciplines–not just to history or sociology or anthropology, but to
the legal and educational fields as well. The author has approached
this subject with sensitivity and pragmatic analysis. She has drawn
thoughtful conclusions based on the empirical analysis of a host of
available documents and of numerical data that she collected from
census records, marriage records, and other demographic sources.
Where the results might be inconclusive, Yarbrough offers avenues for
further investigation and analysis.
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