The Indians of the Southeast had the most highly centralized and
complex social structure of all the aboriginal peoples in the
continental United States. They lived in large towns and villages,
built monumental mounds and earthworks, enjoyed rich religious and
artistic achievements, and maintained a flourishing economy based
on agriculture and complemented by time-honored hunting and
gathering techniques. Yet they have remained relatively unknown to
most scholars and laymen, in part because of a lack of
collaboration between historians and anthropologists. Four
Centuries of Southern Indians is a collection of nine essays which
allow both historians and anthropologists to make their necessary
contributions to a fuller understanding of the southern Indians.
The essays span four hundred years, beginning with French and
Spanish relations with the Timucuan Indians in northern Florida in
the sixteenth century and ending with the modern Cherokees
transported to Oklahoma. The interim topics include the social
structure of the Tuscaroras of North Carolina in the eighteenth
century, the role southern Indians played in the American
Revolution, the removal of the southern Indians to the Indian
Territory, and Cherokee beliefs about sorcery and witchcraft. This
collection of essays and the cooperation between historians and
anthropologists which it incorporates signify the beginning of what
will undoubtedly prove a fruitful approach to the study of southern
Indians.
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