LEADER 03980nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910462848803321 005 20211028023718.0 010 $a0-674-07562-5 010 $a0-674-07560-9 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674075603 035 $a(CKB)2670000000367949 035 $a(EBL)3301309 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000886090 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11493727 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000886090 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10816633 035 $a(PQKB)10772143 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301309 035 $a(DE-B1597)209755 035 $a(OCoLC)844923095 035 $a(OCoLC)853236662 035 $a(OCoLC)999360213 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674075603 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301309 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10713636 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000367949 100 $a20121015d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe four deaths of Acorn Whistler$b[electronic resource] $etelling stories in colonial America /$fJoshua Piker 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-674-04686-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPrologue: April 1, 1752 --$tIntroduction: Acorn Whistler and the Storytellers --$tI. IMPERIAL --$t1. The Governor --$t2. The Governor's Story --$tII. NATIONAL --$t3. The Emperor --$t4. The Emperor's Story --$tIII. LOCAL --$t5. The Family and Community --$t6. The Family and Community's Story --$tIV. COLONIAL --$t7. The Colonists --$t8. The Colonists' Story --$tEpilogue: June 5, 1753 --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aWho was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man's fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached. At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn Whistler was executed in the summer of 1752 for the crime of murdering five Cherokee men. War had just broken out between the Creeks and the Cherokees to the north. To the east, colonists in South Carolina and Georgia watched the growing conflict with alarm, while British imperial officials kept an eye on both the Indians' war and the volatile politics of the colonists themselves. They all interpreted the single calamitous event of Acorn Whistler's death through their own uncertainty about the future. Joshua Piker uses their diverging accounts to uncover the larger truth of an early America rife with violence and insecurity but also transformative possibility. 606 $aCherokee Indians$xViolence against$zSouth Carolina$zCharleston 606 $aCreek Indians$xKings and rulers$vBiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xAdministration 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies$zAmerica$xHistory$y18th century 607 $aSouthern States$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCherokee Indians$xViolence against 615 0$aCreek Indians$xKings and rulers 676 $a975.004/97385 676 $aB 700 $aPiker$b Joshua Aaron$01040338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462848803321 996 $aThe four deaths of Acorn Whistler$92463104 997 $aUNINA