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Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom (American Crossroads) Paperback – Illustrated, June 23, 2015
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Meticulously crafted from historical and literary sources, Ties That Bind vividly portrays the members of the Shoeboots family. Doll emerges as an especially poignant character, whose life is mostly known through the records of things done to her―her purchase, her marriage, the loss of her children―but also through her moving petition to the federal government for the pension owed to her as Shoe Boots's widow. A sensitive rendition of the hard realities of black slavery within Native American nations, the book provides the fullest picture we have of the myriad complexities, ironies, and tensions among African Americans, Native Americans, and whites in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Updated with a new preface and an appendix of key primary sources, this remains an essential book for students of Native American history, African American history, and the history of race and ethnicity in the United States.
- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication dateJune 23, 2015
- Dimensions6 x 1.04 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100520285638
- ISBN-13978-0520285637
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"An engaging and readable narrative . . . Tiya Miles uses [the] relationship and the lives of the descendants of Shoe Boots and Doll to illuminate larger political and social changes occurring in the Cherokee Nation throughout the nineteenth century." ― Journal of Southern History
"Ties That Bind makes important contributions to Native American, African American, Southern, and Western histories. Miles exposes complicated conceptions of race in early America, encouraging readers to look beyond simple notions of Black, White, and Indian. She shifts with ease among history, anthropology, literature, and law to describe a nuanced world, charting the changing place of both Africans in the Cherokee Nation and the Cherokee Nation in America. ― Journal of Social History
"The book vividly conveys how precarious were the lives of Native and African people caught up in the whirlwind of slavery, colonialism, and discourses and practices of race." ― American Quarterly
"Ties That Bind is an excellent work that will be useful to students in African American studies, Native American studies, and early nineteenth century United States history." ― Journal of African American Studies
"In crafting her argument, Miles draws skillfully on scholarly work in disciplines including history, anthropology, women's studies, and literature. She also taps a range of published and unpublished archival documents, such as missionary records and newspapers. In this way, she provides as complete a portrait as we are likely to get of a fascinating family and their place in American and Native American History." ― Journal of Anthropological Research
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Ties That Bind is a haunting and innovative book. Tiya Miles refuses to avoid or cover over the most painful aspects of the shared stories of Indians and African Americans. Instead, Miles passionately defends the need to explore history, even when the facts provided by history are not those that contemporary people want to hear. Peggy Pascoe, author of Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939
"The book vividly conveys how precarious were the lives of Native and African people caught up in the whirlwind of slavery, colonialism, and discourses and practices of race." David Chang, American Quarterly
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“Ties That Bind is a haunting and innovative book. Tiya Miles refuses to avoid or cover over the most painful aspects of the shared stories of Indians and African Americans. Instead, Miles passionately defends the need to explore history, even when the facts provided by history are not those that contemporary people want to hear.”―Peggy Pascoe, author of Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939
"The book vividly conveys how precarious were the lives of Native and African people caught up in the whirlwind of slavery, colonialism, and discourses and practices of race."―David Chang, American Quarterly
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- Publisher : University of California Press; Second edition (June 23, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0520285638
- ISBN-13 : 978-0520285637
- Item Weight : 1.25 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 1.04 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #420,314 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,285 in Native American History (Books)
- #1,969 in African American Demographic Studies (Books)
- #5,945 in U.S. State & Local History
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About the author
Tiya Miles is the author of three multiple prize-winning works in the history of early American race relations: Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom; The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story; and most recently, The Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits.
She has also written historical fiction: The Cherokee Rose: A Novel of Gardens and Ghosts (a Lambda Literary Award Finalist), shared her travels to "haunted" historic sites of slavery in a published lecture series, and written various articles and op-eds (in The New York Times, CNN.com, the Huffington Post) on women’s history, history and memory, black public culture, and black and indigenous interrelated experience.
She is a past MacArthur Foundation Fellow (“genius award”) and Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow and a current National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholars Award recipient. She taught on the faculty of the University of Michigan for sixteen years and is currently a Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at Harvard University.
Tiya was born and raised in Cincinnati, and now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, three children, and three pets. She is an avid reader of feminist mysteries, a passionate fan of old houses, and a loyal patron of Graeter’s ice cream in Cincinnati as well as Dairy Queen just about anywhere.
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- Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2021I am a great admirer of Tiya Miles’ books and this one is no exception. This is the third book I have selected to teach and its brilliant. When I read her books I am always struck by the power of her narrative voice and storytelling because she is engaging histories that are difficult to research. But she does and beautifully. She is one of a handful of scholars I will read without knowing a thing about a new book because I know it will be intriguing and quirky in the best way and fascinating.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2019Excellent book.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2017Book was in great condition.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2020Ties that Bind is a very well written book. Tiya Miles did an excellent job not only writing it, but putting it together, and tied all aspects, all the loose laces, if you will, through the Shoeboot family, that is Afro Cherokee. The reason for four stars, is that I did not like the presumptions she made on the intimate lives, and at the length that she did it, pulling it like like an elastic for a good part of one of the chapters. Yes, it was based on what a few testimonials she found spoke off, but it is not (in my opinion) something to base their relationship. Yes, it is true that it’s a very possible prospect, but for the 10% chance that it was a good relationship, it should not be speculated in a book like Ties that Bind. I personally find that it takes away.
I will stop here, because I do not want to say more, and for the reader to find everything the book has to offer on their own. I most definitely recommend it, and happy that my class required it. I learned a lot and enjoyed the great majority of it.
- Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2017His-story