TY  - BOOK
AU  - Piker,Joshua
TI  - Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America
SN  - 9780674042131
AV  - E99 
U1  - 976.1/64 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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