Brothers Of Coweta

Author : Bryan C. Rindfleisch
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643362045

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Brothers of Coweta by Bryan C. Rindfleisch Pdf

In Brothers of Coweta Bryan C. Rindfleisch explores how family and clan served as the structural foundation of the Muscogee (Creek) Indian world through the lens of two brothers, who emerged from the historical shadows to shape the forces of empire, colonialism, and revolution that transformed the American South during the eighteenth century. Although much of the historical record left by European settlers was fairly robust, it included little about Indigenous people and even less about their kinship, clan, and familial dynamics. However, European authorities, imperial agents, merchants, and a host of other individuals left a surprising paper trail when it came to two brothers, Sempoyaffee and Escotchaby, of Coweta, located in what is now central Georgia. Though fleeting, their appearances in the archival record offer a glimpse of their extensive kinship connections and the ways in which family and clan propelled them into their influential roles negotiating with Europeans. As the brothers navigated the politics of empire, they pursued distinct family agendas that at times clashed with the interests of Europeans and other Muscogee leaders. Despite their limitations, Rindfleisch argues that these archives reveal how specific Indigenous families negotiated and even subverted empire-building and colonialism in early America. Through careful examination, he demonstrates how historians of early and Native America can move past the limitations of the archives to rearticulate the familial and clan dynamics of the Muscogee world.

Author : Steven Peach
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806194424

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Rivers of Power by Steven Peach Pdf

Although the Creeks constitute a sovereign nation today, the concept of the nation meant little to their ancestors in the Native South. Rather, as Steven Peach contends in Rivers of Power, the Creeks of present-day Georgia and Alabama conceptualized rivers as the basis of power, leadership, and governance in early America. An original work of Indigenous ethnohistory, Peach’s book explores the implications of this river-oriented approach to power, in which rivers were a metaphor for the subregional provinces that defined the political textures of Creek country. The provinces nurtured leaders who worked to mitigate dangers across the Native South, including intertribal war, trade dependence, settler intrusion, and land erosion. Rivers of Power describes a system in which these headmen forged remarkably malleable coalitions within and across provinces to safeguard Creek country from harm—but were in turn directed, approved, and contested by local townspeople and kin groups. Taking a unique bottom-up approach to the study of Native Americans, Peach reveals how local actors guided and thwarted Indigenous headmen far more frequently and creatively than has been assumed. He also shows that although the Creeks traced descent through the maternal line, some became more comfortable with bilateral kinship, giving weight to both the paternal and maternal lineages. Fathers and sons thus played greater roles in Creek governance than Indigenous scholarship has acknowledged. Weaving a new narrative of the Creeks and outlining the contours of their riverine mode of governance, this work unpacks the fraught dimensions of political power in the Native South—and, indeed, Native North America—in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By privileging Indigenous thought and intertribal history, it also advances the larger project of Native American history.

Author : Jill Suzanne Hough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Creek Indians
ISBN : UCAL:X59952

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Fathers and Brothers by Jill Suzanne Hough Pdf

Author : Michelle LeMaster
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813932415

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Brothers Born of One Mother by Michelle LeMaster Pdf

As one of the most fundamental aspects of culture, gender had significant implications for military and diplomatic relations. Understood differently by each side, notions of kinship and proper masculine and feminine behavior wielded during negotiations had the power to either strengthen or disrupt alliances. The collision of different cultural expectations of masculine behavior and men's relationships to and responsibilities for women and children became significant areas of discussion and contention. Native American and British leaders frequently discussed issues of manhood (especially in the context of warfare), the treatment of women and children, and intermarriage. Women themselves could either enhance or upset relations through their active participation in diplomacy, war, and trade.

Author : John A. Burrison
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820332208

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Brothers in Clay by John A. Burrison Pdf

An illustrated study that tells the story of Georgia's folk pottery tradition, the forces that shaped it, and the families and artisans who continue to keep it alive provides a new preface that summarizes the past decade of southern folk pottery. Reprint.

Author : H. Stephen Hale
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798888128602

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Names of Oconee Kings and Villages of Florida Compared with their Meanings in Miccosukee by H. Stephen Hale Pdf

About the Book Names examines an alternate explanation for the sudden disappearance of the Long Warrior and concomitant sudden appearance of King Thomas Paine who nobody knew anything about before 1786. It also explores the unusual education of Billy Bowlegs II and his sister. Dr. William Simmons saw them at Horatio Dexter’s place and mentioned them being cared for at his home. Edward Wanton, the clerk at the Picolata Indian Store kept meticulous records and names of the Alachua Chiefs with the amount of debt they owed Panton, Leslie and Company. Sitarky, the second in command under Billy Bowlegs II may have been the son-in-law of Oconee King Thomas Paine. This different perspective on where Oconee King Thomas Paine may have come from stresses the value of being open to new information and paradigms. Many hold the perspective that history is finished with nothing more to be added. The author seeks to inspire people to be willing to entertain new ideas with fresh looks at old data. About the Author H. Stephen Hale, PhD was the first anthropologist to do archaeology among the Kuna in the Comarca de San Blas in Panama. While there he helped transcribe Kammu (flute) music, pictographic books, and study midden (refuse mound) formation. Hale studied Nahuatl in Mexico while mapping Totonac temple sites. He also translated for Kuna Natives of Panama studying Tenrikyo in Japan. Hale presently serves on a prescribed fire burn team for the Florida Park Service and a specialist for the removal of invasive, non-native plants from park properties. He is a trained First Aid Responder. Hale continues to support many of his Kuna friends in Panama and maintains friendships with people he met in Tenrikyo, Japan.

Author : Thomas Vennum
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 080188764X

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American Indian Lacrosse by Thomas Vennum Pdf

To understand the aboriginal roots of lacrosse, one must enter a world of spiritual belief and magic where players sewed inchworms into the innards of lacrosse balls and medicine men gazed at miniature lacrosse sticks to predict future events, where bits of bat wings were twisted into the stick's netting, and where famous players were—and are still—buried with their sticks. Here Thomas Vennum brings this world to life.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : UOM:39015049012829

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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1822
Category : Methodist Church
ISBN : NYPL:33433081737680

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The Methodist Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Swine
ISBN : UIUC:30112082289726

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American Swineherd by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Small Business Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Small business
ISBN : UOM:39015069203324

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Annual Report by United States. Small Business Administration Pdf

Author : Kevin Kokomoor
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496212337

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Of One Mind and of One Government by Kevin Kokomoor Pdf

In Of One Mind and Of One Government Kevin Kokomoor examines the formation of Creek politics and nationalism from the 1770s through the Red Stick War, when the aftermath of the American Revolution and the beginnings of American expansionism precipitated a crisis in Creek country. The state of Georgia insisted that the Creeks sign three treaties to cede tribal lands. The Creeks objected vigorously, igniting a series of border conflicts that escalated throughout the late eighteenth century and hardened partisan lines between pro-American, pro-Spanish, and pro-British Creeks and their leaders. Creek politics shifted several times through historical contingencies, self-interests, changing leadership, and debate about how to best preserve sovereignty, a process that generated national sentiment within the nascent and imperfect Creek Nation. Based on original archival research and a revisionist interpretation, Kokomoor explores how the state of Georgia's increasingly belligerent and often fraudulent land acquisitions forced the Creeks into framing a centralized government, appointing heads of state, and assuming the political and administrative functions of a nation-state. Prior interpretations have viewed the Creeks as a loose confederation of towns, but the formation of the Creek Nation brought predictability, stability, and reduced military violence in its domain during the era.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Greek letter societies
ISBN : NYPL:33433076006158

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The Chi-Phi Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Frances Banks Storey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1118 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89060452489

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Grandpap's Family by Mary Frances Banks Storey Pdf

Author : Bryan C. Rindfleisch
Publisher : Indians and Southern History
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817320270

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George Galphin's Intimate Empire by Bryan C. Rindfleisch Pdf

A revealing saga detailing the economic, familial, and social bonds forged by Indian trader George Galphin in the early American South A native of Ireland, George Galphin arrived in South Carolina in 1737 and quickly emerged as one of the most proficient deerskin traders in the South. This was due in large part to his marriage to Metawney, a Creek Indian woman from the town of Coweta, who incorporated Galphin into her family and clan, allowing him to establish one of the most profitable merchant companies in North America. As part of his trade operations, Galphin cemented connections with Indigenous and European peoples across the South, while simultaneously securing links to merchants and traders in the British Empire, continental Europe, and beyond. In George Galphin's Intimate Empire: The Creek Indians, Family, and Colonialism in Early America, Bryan C. Rindfleisch presents a complex narrative about eighteenth-century cross-cultural relationships. Reconstructing the multilayered bonds forged by Galphin and challenging scholarly understandings of life in the Native South, the American South more broadly, and the Atlantic World, Rindfleisch looks simultaneously at familial, cultural, political, geographical, and commercial ties--examining how eighteenth-century people organized their world, both mentally and physically. He demonstrates how Galphin's importance emerged through the people with whom he bonded. At their most intimate, Galphin's multilayered relationships revolved around the Creek, Anglo-French, and African children who comprised his North American family, as well as family and friends on the other side of the Atlantic. Through extensive research in primary sources, Rindfleisch reconstructs an expansive imperial world that stretches across the American South and reaches into London and includes Indians, Europeans, and Africans who were intimately interconnected and mutually dependent. As a whole, George Galphin's Intimate Empire provides critical insights into the intensely personal dimensions and cross-cultural contours of the eighteenth-century South and how empire-building and colonialism were, by their very nature, intimate and familial affairs.