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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814464803321

Autore

Ethridge Robbie Franklyn <1955->

Titolo

Creek country : the Creek Indians and their world / / Robbie Ethridge

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2003

ISBN

979-88-908754-9-5

0-8078-6155-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (384 p.)

Disciplina

976.004/973

Soggetti

Creek Indians - History

Creek Indians - Land tenure

Creek Indians - Government relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-355) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Benjamin Hawkins in Creek country -- The beginnings of Creek country: a historical overview -- The landscape of Creek country -- The heart of Creek country -- The people of Creek country -- The hinterlands -- Creek farmers -- Creek ranchers -- Entrepreneurs, wage laborers, thieves, and the Creek frontier exchange economy -- The selling of Creek country -- The closing of Creek country.

Sommario/riassunto

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 betwee