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Creeks and Southerners - Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier (Hardcover, New)
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Creeks and Southerners - Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier (Hardcover, New)
Series: Indians of the Southeast
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"Creeks and Southerners" examines the families created by the
hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European
American men in the southeastern United States during the
eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Called "Indian countrymen"
at the time, these intermarried white men moved into their wives'
villages in what is now Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. By doing so,
they obtained new homes, familial obligations, occupations, and
identities. At the same time, however, they maintained many of
their ties to white American society and as a result entered the
historical record in large numbers. "Creeks and Southerners"
studies the ways in which many children of these relationships
lived both as Creek Indians and white Southerners. By carefully
altering their physical appearances, choosing appropriate clothing,
learning multiple languages, embracing maternal and paternal
kinsmen and kinswomen, and balancing their loyalties, the children
of intermarriages found ways to bridge what seemed to be an
unbridgeable divide. Many became prominent Creek political leaders
and warriors, played central roles in the lucrative deerskin trade,
built inns and taverns to cater to the needs of European American
travelers, frequently moved between colonial American and Native
communities, and served both European American and Creek officials
as interpreters, assistants, and travel escorts. The fortunes of
these bicultural children reflect the changing nature of
Creek-white relations, which became less flexible and increasingly
contentious throughout the nineteenth century as both Creeks and
Americans accepted a more rigid biological concept of race, forcing
their bicultural children to choose between identities.
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