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Rosanna Mounce was flustered. The Dawes commissioners were asking questions about her former lovers and ex-husbands, and they expected her to answer them in this public place, the enrollment office. It was the fall of 1902. Having sent her current husband, Joe, to speak on her behalf as was customar...

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Published inSustaining the Cherokee Family p. 127
Main Author ROSE STREMLAU
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published The University of North Carolina Press 26.09.2011
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Summary:Rosanna Mounce was flustered. The Dawes commissioners were asking questions about her former lovers and ex-husbands, and they expected her to answer them in this public place, the enrollment office. It was the fall of 1902. Having sent her current husband, Joe, to speak on her behalf as was customary and appropriate from her perspective, she had been waiting outside in the family’s wagon. Joe had represented her once before. In 1900, he had enrolled Rosanna, her son from a previous relationship, and their sons. But his testimony was no longer acceptable to commissioners because they no longer believed with
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