Long before the indigenous people of southeastern North America
first encountered Europeans and Africans, they established
communities with clear social and political hierarchies and rich
cultural traditions. Award-winning historian Gregory D. Smithers
brings this world to life in Native Southerners, a sweeping
narrative of American Indian history in the Southeast from the time
before European colonialism to the Trail of Tears and beyond. In
the Native South, as in much of North America, storytelling is key
to an understanding of origins and tradition - and the stories of
the indigenous people of the Southeast are central to Native
Southerners. Spanning territory reaching from modern-day Louisiana
and Arkansas to the Atlantic coast, and from present-day Tennessee
and Kentucky through Florida, this book gives voice to the lived
history of such well-known polities as the Cherokees, Creeks,
Seminoles, Chickasaws, and Choctaws, as well as smaller Native
communities like the Nottoway, Occaneechi, Haliwa-Saponi, Catawba,
Biloxi-Chitimacha, Natchez, Caddo, and many others. From the oral
and cultural traditions of these Native peoples, as well as the
written archives of European colonists and their Native
counterparts, Smithers constructs a vibrant history of the
societies, cultures, and peoples that made and remade the Native
South in the centuries before the American Civil War. What emerges
is a complex picture of how Native Southerners understood
themselves and their world - a portrayal linking community and
politics, warfare and kinship, migration, adaptation, and
ecological stewardship - and how this worldview shaped and was
shaped by their experience both before and after the arrival of
Europeans. As nuanced in detail as it is sweeping in scope, the
narrative Smithers constructs is a testament to the storytelling
and the living history that have informed the identities of Native
Southerners to our day.
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