William Bartram On The Southeastern Indians

Author : William Bartram
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803262051

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William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians by William Bartram Pdf

William Bartram traveled throughout the American Southeast from 1773 to 1776. He occupies a unique place as an American Enlightenment explorer, naturalist, writer, and artist whose work was widely admired in his time and thereafter. Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and other leading romantics found inspiration in his pages. Bartram's most famous work, Travels has remained in print since the first publication of the book in 1791. However, his writings on Indians have received less attention than they deserve. This volume contains all of Bartram's known writings on Native Americans: a new version of "Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians," originally edited by E. G. Squier and first published in 1853; a previously unpublished essay, "Some Hints and Observations Concerning the Civilization of the Indians, or Aborigines of America"; and extensive excerpts from Travels. These documents are among the most valuable accounts we have of the Creeks and Seminoles in the last half of the eighteenth century. Several illustrations by Bartram are also included. The editors provide information on the history of these documents and supply extensive annotations. The book opens with a biographical essay on Bartram and concludes with a thorough evaluation of his contributions to southeastern Indian ethnohistory, anthropology, and archaeology. The editors have identified and corrected a number of errors found in the extant literature concerning Bartram and his writings Gregory A. Waselkov, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of South Alabama, is coeditor with Peter H. Wood and M. Thomas Hatley of Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast (Nebraska 1989). Kathryn E. Holland Braund is an independent scholar and author of Deerskins and Duffels: The Creek Indian Trade with Anglo-America, 1865–1815 (Nebraska 1993).

Author : William Bartram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 088146483X

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The Flower Hunter and the People by William Bartram Pdf

William Bartram has rightly been hailed as an astute, perceptive chronicler of Native American societies. The Flower Hunter and the People introduces Bartram's writings on Southeastern Native Americans and allows Bartram and his indigenous consultants to tell their stories in their own words.

Author : Charles M. Hudson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:1388507959

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Southeastern Indians by Charles M. Hudson Pdf

A broad introduction to the prehistory, social institutions, and history of the native people of the southeastern United States.

Author : William Bartram
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1955-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0486200132

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Travels of William Bartram by William Bartram Pdf

Reprint of 1791 ed.

Author : Kathryn E. Holland Braund,Charlotte M. Porter
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817355715

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Fields of Vision by Kathryn E. Holland Braund,Charlotte M. Porter Pdf

A classic work of history, ethnography, and botany, and an examination of the life and environs of the 18th-century south William Bartram was a naturalist, artist, and author of Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the ExtensiveTerritories of the Muscogulees, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Choctaws. The book, based on his journey across the South, reflects a remarkable coming of age. In 1773, Bartram departed his family home near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as a British colonist; in 1777, he returned as a citizen of an emerging nation of the United States. The account of his journey, published in 1791, established a national benchmark for nature writing and remains a classic of American literature, scientific writing, and history. Brought up as a Quaker, Bartram portrayed nature through a poetic lens of experience as well as scientific observation, and his work provides a window on 18th-century southern landscapes. Particularly enlightening and appealing are Bartram’s detailed accounts of Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee peoples. The Bartram Trail Conference fosters Bartram scholarship through biennial conferences held along the route of his travels. This richly illustrated volume of essays, a selection from recent conferences, brings together scholarly contributions from history, archaeology, and botany. The authors discuss the political and personal context of his travels; species of interest to Bartram; Creek architecture; foodways in the 18th-century south, particularly those of Indian groups that Bartram encountered; rediscovery of a lost Bartram manuscript; new techniques for charting Bartram’s trail and imaging his collections; and a fine analysis of Bartram’s place in contemporary environmental issues.

Author : Edward J. Cashin
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007-02-04
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1570036853

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William Bartram and the American Revolution on the Southern Frontier by Edward J. Cashin Pdf

In Travels, the celebrated 1791 account of the "Old Southwest," William Bartram recorded the natural world he saw around him but, rather incredibly, omitted any reference to the epochal events of the American Revolution. Edward J. Cashin places Bartram in the context of his times and explains his conspicuous avoidance of people, places, and events embroiled in revolutionary fervor. Cashin suggests that while Bartram documented the natural world for plant collector John Fothergill, he wrote Travels for an entirely different audience. Convinced that Providence directed events for the betterment of mankind and that the Constitutional Convention would produce a political model for the rest of the world, Bartram offered Travels as a means of shaping the new country. Cashin illuminates the convictions that motivated Bartram-that if Americans lived in communion with nature, heeded the moral law, and treated the people of the interior with respect, then America would be blessed with greatness.

Author : William Bartram
Publisher : Wormsloe Foundation Nature Boo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0820328774

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William Bartram, the Search for Nature's Design by William Bartram Pdf

This work presents new material in the form of art, letters, and unpublished manuscripts. These documents expand our knowledge of Bartram as an explorer, naturalist, artist, writer, and citizen of the early Republic.

Author : Robbie Ethridge,Charles Hudson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781604739558

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The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 by Robbie Ethridge,Charles Hudson Pdf

With essays by Stephen Davis, Penelope Drooker, Patricia K. Galloway, Steven Hahn, Charles Hudson, Marvin Jeter, Paul Kelton, Timothy Pertulla, Christopher Rodning, Helen Rountree, Marvin T. Smith, and John Worth The first two-hundred years of Western civilization in the Americas was a time when fundamental and sometimes catastrophic changes occurred in Native American communities in the South. In The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540–1760, historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists provide perspectives on how this era shaped American Indian society for later generations and how it even affects these communities today. This collection of essays presents the most current scholarship on the social history of the South, identifying and examining the historical forces, trends, and events that were attendant to the formation of the Indians of the colonial South. The essayists discuss how Southeastern Indian culture and society evolved. They focus on such aspects as the introduction of European diseases to the New World, long-distance migration and relocation, the influences of the Spanish mission system, the effects of the English plantation system, the northern fur trade of the English, and the French, Dutch, and English trade of Indian slaves and deerskins in the South. This book covers the full geographic and social scope of the Southeast, including the indigenous peoples of Florida, Virginia, Maryland, the Appalachian Mountains, the Carolina Piedmont, the Ohio Valley, and the Central and Lower Mississippi Valleys.

Author : William Bartram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798748082662

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Travels by William Bartram Pdf

Travels Through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws. Containing an Account of the Soil and Natural Productions of Those Regions, Together With Observations on the Manners of the Indians.

Author : Kathryn E. Braund
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1996-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0803261268

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Deerskins and Duffels by Kathryn E. Braund Pdf

Deerskins and Duffels documents the trading relationship between the Creek Indians in what is now the southeastern United States and the Anglo-American peoples who settled there. The Creeks were the largest native group in the Southeast, and through their trade alliance with the British colonies they became the dominant native power in the area. The deerskin trade became the economic lifeblood of the Creeks after European contact. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of the trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society. British trade is detailed here, as well: the major traders and trading companies, how goods were taken to the Indians, how the traders lived, and how trade was used as a diplomatic tool. The author also discusses trade in Indian slaves, a Creek-Anglo cooperation that resulted in the virtual destruction of the native peoples of Florida.

Author : Charles C. Jones
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 645 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780817310042

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Antiquities of the Southern Indians, Particularly of the Georgia Tribes by Charles C. Jones Pdf

A groundbreaking work that linked historic tribes with prehistoric "antiquities"

Author : Hudson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004664241

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Elements of Southeastern Indian Religion by Hudson Pdf

Author : Jerald T. Milanich
Publisher : Native Peoples, Cultures, and
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0813015987

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Florida's Indians from Ancient Times to the Present by Jerald T. Milanich Pdf

"An exceptional book for popular consumption. . . . It is a wonderful synthesis, and will be avidly read by both professional archaeologists and the general public."--Marvin T. Smith, Valdosta State University Florida's Indians tells the story of the native societies that have lived in Florida for twelve millennia, from the early hunters at the end of the Ice Age to the modern Seminole, Miccosukee, and Creeks. When the first Indians arrived in what is now Florida, they wrested their livelihood from a land far different from the modern countryside, one that was cooler, drier, and almost twice the size. Thousands of years later European explorers encountered literally hundreds of different Indian groups living in every part of the state. (Today every Florida county contains an Indian archaeological site.) The arrival of colonists brought the native peoples a new world and great changes took place--by the mid-1700s, through warfare, slave raids, and especially epidemics, the population was almost annihilated. Other Indians soon moved into the state, including Creeks from Georgia and Alabama, who were the ancestors of the modern Seminole and Miccosukee Indians. Written for a general audience, this book is lavishly illustrated with full-color drawings and photographs. It skillfully integrates the latest archaeological and historical information about the Sunshine State's Native Americans, connecting the past and present with modern place-names, and it gives a proud voice to Florida's rich Indian heritage. Jerald T. Milanich, curator in archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville, is the author of Florida Indians and the Invasion from Europe (UPF, 1995) and Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida (UPF, 1994), among numerous other books.

Author : Emma Lila Fundaburk
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780817310783

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Southeastern Indians Life Portraits by Emma Lila Fundaburk Pdf

This pictorial classic is a valuable ethnological record of southeastern Indians that also showcases the work of early photographers and artists. A collection of over 350 photographs, paintings, drawings,and woodcuts, Life Portraits offers us an important visual representation of southeastern Indians—at work, at play, in rituals, and in death—when they first encountered Europeans. Studied by historians and archaeologists, as well as museum exhibit designers and costumers, these illustrations provide a wealth of information on native dress and jewelry, house construction, agricultural techniques, warfare, and other aspects of American Indian life. Among the tribes illustrated are Natchez, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Seminole, Chitimacha, Timucua, Powhatan, Tuscarora, Caddo, Yuchi, and Shawnee. A special section of the book quotes historic narratives and comments on the life and work of the artists, lithographers, photographers, and engravers who made the originals. Included among these are Jacques le Moyne, John White, Theodore De Bry, Francis Parsons, Joshua Reynolds, John Trumball, George Catlin, John Mix Stanley, Thomas McKenney, and Samuel Waugh. Life Portraits has been a classic title in southeastern archaeology and a staple of bookstores and museum shops around the country since its original publication in 1958. Because the carefully identified illustrations were secured from a wide variety of sources, including the British Museum, the Charleston Museum, the New York Public Library, and the Oklahoma Historical Society, this volume represents the most comprehensiveand widely available record of Indian images. Designed for Americana collections, it will appeal to general readers as well as professional historians and archaeologists.

Author : Gregory A. Waselkov,Peter H. Wood,M. Thomas Hatley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803298617

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Powhatan's Mantle by Gregory A. Waselkov,Peter H. Wood,M. Thomas Hatley Pdf

Considered to be one of the all-time classic studies of southeastern Native peoples, Powhatan's Mantle proves more topical, comprehensive, and insightful than ever before in this revised edition for twenty-first century scholars and students.