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Creeks and Southerners - Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier (Paperback)
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Creeks and Southerners - Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier (Paperback)
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 centuries. 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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