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Creek Country - The Creek Indians and Their World (Paperback, New edition)
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Creek Country - The Creek Indians and Their World (Paperback, New edition)
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Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek
Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee,
Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition. Creek
Country presents a compelling portrait of a culture in crisis, of
its resiliency in the face of profound change, and of the forces
that pushed it into decisive, destructive conflict. Ethridge begins
in 1796 with the arrival of U.S. Indian Agent Benjamin Hawkins,
whose tenure among the Creeks coincided with a period of increased
federal intervention in tribal affairs, growing tension between
Indians and non-Indians, and pronounced strife within the tribe. In
a detailed description of Creek town life, the author reveals how
social structures were stretched to accommodate increased
engagement with whites and blacks. The Creek economy, long linked
to the outside world through the deerskin trade, had begun to fail.
Ethridge details the Creeks' efforts to diversify their economy,
especially through experimental farming and ranching, and the
ecological crisis that ensued. Disputes within the tribe culminated
in the Red Stick War, a civil war among Creeks that quickly spilled
over into conflict between Indians and white settlers and was
ultimately used by U.S. authorities to justify their policy of
Indian removal. |Reconstructing the human and natural environment
of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and
Tennessee, Ethridge presents a compelling portrait of a culture in
economic, political, and ecological crisis; of its resiliency in
the face of profound change; and of the forces that pushed it into
decisive, destructive conflict.
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