The Construction and Evolution of Identity Among the Poarch Band of Creek Indians
Author | : Venus Sharee McGhee |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Creek Indians |
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Author | : Venus Sharee McGhee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Creek Indians |
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Author | : John Reed Swanton |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 1922 |
Genre | : Creek Indians |
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Author | : Steven J. Peach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 419 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Creek Indians |
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"This dissertation is a political history of the Creek Indians spanning the years between the conclusion of the Creek-Cherokee War in 1753 and the Creek Redstick migration to Florida. That migration came to a conclusion in 1821, when the United States took possession of Florida from Spain. By examining British, Spanish, American, and Creek documents with the methodology of ethnohistory, it seeks to understand how community interests directly and indirectly shaped political leadership in Creek society. It argues that Creek towns (italwa), clans, and provinces inspired a contradictory pattern of politics among Creek peoples. On one hand, town headmen forged coalitions with other Creek towns to secure trade with Euro-Americans, pursue peace with Euro-Americans and other indigenous people, and protect Creek hunting grounds. At times, clans stabilized the cross-town coalitions, especially when town leaders forged kinship ties with one another or with a potential Euro-American or indigenous ally. On the other hand, clans undermined political agreements and policies when clansmen carried out the law of retaliation (lex talionis) against Euro-Americans and other indigenous people. By uncovering the ways in which community fostered and impeded coalition-building in Creek society, this project revises debates in Creek ethnohistory, Native American history, and the history of the "Red"/Native Atlantic. Countless examples of coalition-building demonstrate that the Creeks were not politically decentralized, as some Creek ethnohistorians have argued, but nor did they create a centralized "nation" with coercive authority, as others in the same body of scholarship have contended. Secondly, the rise, shift, and demise of coalitions pieced together by this dissertation suggest that Creeks conceptualized politics in terms of coalition units. As a result, Native Americanists should no longer use terms like faction, pro-American, or pro-British to explain Native political agency. Rather, Creek politics developed, operated, shifted, and fractured along lines of community interests, choices, and affiliations. Finally, this project asserts that the Creeks shaped the contours of empire in the Atlantic basin by giving them a decidedly political cast. European overseas empire-building in the Native South was tied to the logic of Creek politics."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
Author | : Christopher Sewell |
Publisher | : Backintyme |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-04-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780939479528 |
The Eastern Creeks: Life in the Spiral Of the three dozen tribes now in Oklahoma, many left behind splinters in their eastern homelands when they were forced from them in the 1830's. The Eastern Creeks are one such branch of the great tree of Muskogean culture. There has been much written about their more famous and intriguing cousins to the south, the Seminole and Miccosukee, but who are the Eastern Creek, clustered in several small communities clustered along the Florida-Alabama state line? What are the ceremonial traditions still extant among them? What is their history since the removal of most of their kinsmen to the west? In this work, the author examines the life of the Eastern Creek people past and present from an inside perspective; the evolution of the communities of Eastern Creeks during the 1800's, their ceremonial traditions, the controversies related to the development of the Hickory Ground by the Poarch Band of Creeks, struggles for federal acknowledgement by some, and the success of others in preserving their identity. While there are many groups of Native Americans who are today in the headlines, few are as less known than the Eastern Creeks of the south.
Author | : Robbie Ethridge |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2004-07-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807861553 |
Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition. Creek Country presents a compelling portrait of a culture in crisis, of its resiliency in the face of profound change, and of the forces that pushed it into decisive, destructive conflict. Ethridge begins in 1796 with the arrival of U.S. Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins, whose tenure among the Creeks coincided with a period of increased federal intervention in tribal affairs, growing tension between Indians and non-Indians, and pronounced strife within the tribe. In a detailed description of Creek town life, the author reveals how social structures were stretched to accommodate increased engagement with whites and blacks. The Creek economy, long linked to the outside world through the deerskin trade, had begun to fail. Ethridge details the Creeks' efforts to diversify their economy, especially through experimental farming and ranching, and the ecological crisis that ensued. Disputes within the tribe culminated in the Red Stick War, a civil war among Creeks that quickly spilled over into conflict between Indians and white settlers and was ultimately used by U.S. authorities to justify their policy of Indian removal.
Author | : Thomas Biolsi |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 2008-03-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1405182881 |
This Companion is comprised of 27 original contributions by leading scholars in the field and summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Surveys the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic, as well as situating ethnographic and ethnohistorical data into larger frameworks Explores anthropology’s contribution to knowledge, its historic and ongoing complicities with colonialism, and its political and ethical obligations toward the people 'studied'
Author | : Thomas Biolsi |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1997-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816516070 |
In 1969 Vine Deloria, Jr., in his controversial book Custer Died for Your Sins, criticized the anthropological community for its impersonal dissection of living Native American cultures. Twenty-five years later, anthropologists have become more sensitive to Native American concerns, and Indian people have become more active in fighting for accurate representations of their cultures. In this collection of essays, Indian and non-Indian scholars examine how the relationship between anthropology and Indians has changed over that quarter-century and show how controversial this issue remains. Practitioners of cultural anthropology, archaeology, education, and history provide multiple lenses through which to view how Deloria's message has been interpreted or misinterpreted. Among the contributions are comments on Deloria's criticisms, thoughts on the reburial issue, and views on the ethnographic study of specific peoples. A final contribution by Deloria himself puts the issue of anthropologist/Indian interaction in the context of the century's end. CONTENTS Introduction: What's Changed, What Hasn't, Thomas Biolsi & Larry J. Zimmerman Part One--Deloria Writes Back Vine Deloria, Jr., in American Historiography, Herbert T. Hoover Growing Up on Deloria: The Impact of His Work on a New Generation of Anthropologists, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith Educating an Anthro: The Influence of Vine Deloria, Jr., Murray L. Wax Part Two--Archaeology and American Indians Why Have Archaeologists Thought That the Real Indians Were Dead and What Can We Do about It?, Randall H. McGuire Anthropology and Responses to the Reburial Issue, Larry J. Zimmerman Part Three-Ethnography and Colonialism Here Come the Anthros, Cecil King Beyond Ethics: Science, Friendship and Privacy, Marilyn Bentz The Anthropological Construction of Indians: Haviland Scudder Mekeel and the Search for the Primitive in Lakota Country, Thomas Biolsi Informant as Critic: Conducting Research on a Dispute between Iroquoianist Scholars and Traditional Iroquois, Gail Landsman The End of Anthropology (at Hopi)?, Peter Whiteley Conclusion: Anthros, Indians and Planetary Reality, Vine Deloria, Jr.
Author | : Matthew L. M. Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Alaska Natives |
ISBN | : 9780314290717 |
Hardbound - New, hardbound print book.
Author | : Arie Wallert |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 1995-08-24 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0892363223 |
Bridging the fields of conservation, art history, and museum curating, this volume contains the principal papers from an international symposium titled "Historical Painting Techniques, Materials, and Studio Practice" at the University of Leiden in Amsterdam, Netherlands, from June 26 to 29, 1995. The symposium—designed for art historians, conservators, conservation scientists, and museum curators worldwide—was organized by the Department of Art History at the University of Leiden and the Art History Department of the Central Research Laboratory for Objects of Art and Science in Amsterdam. Twenty-five contributors representing museums and conservation institutions throughout the world provide recent research on historical painting techniques, including wall painting and polychrome sculpture. Topics cover the latest art historical research and scientific analyses of original techniques and materials, as well as historical sources, such as medieval treatises and descriptions of painting techniques in historical literature. Chapters include the painting methods of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Dutch 17th-century landscape painting, wall paintings in English churches, Chinese paintings on paper and canvas, and Tibetan thangkas. Color plates and black-and-white photographs illustrate works from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
Author | : Rayna Green |
Publisher | : Bloomington : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Annotated bibliography on works about North American native women. Includes citations of Canadian works.