Ga-ne-tli-yv-s-di (Change) in the Cherokee Nation.

ELLIOTT, JENNIFER

The article looks at two plantation houses owned by the Cherokee regional chiefs James Vann and The Ridge in northwest Georgia. According to the author, Vann and The Ridge used these houses to negotiate the complexities of their dual identities as Cherokee chiefs and American elites. It is suggested that they combined Atlantic building forms with local materials to express a variety of cultural meanings. Particular focus is given to entertaining practices and conceptions of gender and gentility in Cherokee and Atlantic cultures. Details related to the Treaty of Holston between the U.S. and the Cherokee nation and the clause known as the Acculturation Policy are also presented. The use of classical motifs and color in the houses' design is also discussed.

CHEROKEE Nation; GEORGIA; DWELLINGS; ARCHITECTURE of indigenous peoples of the Americas; CHEROKEE (North American people) -- History; GOVERNMENT relations with the Cherokee; NATIVE American civic leaders; CULTURAL assimilation of Native Americans; DWELLINGS -- History; ENTERTAINING; COLOR in architecture; VANN, James; HISTORY

Buildings & Landscapes, 2011, Vol 18, Issue 1, p43

1936-0886

Academic Journal

10.5749/buildland.18.1.0043