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Okfuskee : A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2004Copyright date: ©2004Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (285 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674042131
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: OkfuskeeDDC classification:
  • 976.1/64
LOC classification:
  • E99
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Peculiar Connections -- I. The Town and Its Neighbors -- 1. Okfuskee and the British, 1708-1745: Formation, Assertion, Indecision -- 2. Okfuskee and the British, 1749-1774: Decision, Correction, Reassertion -- 3. Leaving Okfuskee: Economic Activities Outside of Town -- II. The Town and Its People -- 4. Agriculture and Livestock: Changing Patterns of Land Use in Okfuskee -- 5. Newcomers in the "Old White Town": Traders and Economic Life in Okfuskee -- 6. Big Women and Mad Men: Okfuskee Experiences with Gender and Generational Relations -- Conclusion: "The Fiends of the Tallapoosie" - Nuyaka, Tohopeka, and the Rise of Andrew Jackson -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: This perspective on life in a Native society offers understanding of the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses. By comparing the experiences of the Okfuskee and their British American contemporaries, the book relates how Native and Euro-American histories intersected with, and diverged from, each other.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Peculiar Connections -- I. The Town and Its Neighbors -- 1. Okfuskee and the British, 1708-1745: Formation, Assertion, Indecision -- 2. Okfuskee and the British, 1749-1774: Decision, Correction, Reassertion -- 3. Leaving Okfuskee: Economic Activities Outside of Town -- II. The Town and Its People -- 4. Agriculture and Livestock: Changing Patterns of Land Use in Okfuskee -- 5. Newcomers in the "Old White Town": Traders and Economic Life in Okfuskee -- 6. Big Women and Mad Men: Okfuskee Experiences with Gender and Generational Relations -- Conclusion: "The Fiends of the Tallapoosie" - Nuyaka, Tohopeka, and the Rise of Andrew Jackson -- Notes -- Index.

This perspective on life in a Native society offers understanding of the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses. By comparing the experiences of the Okfuskee and their British American contemporaries, the book relates how Native and Euro-American histories intersected with, and diverged from, each other.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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