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Southeastern Native American forms of domestic architecture
underwent multiple transitions between the mid-eighteenth to early
nineteenth centuries. In Native American Log Cabins in the
Southeast, Gregory A. Waselkov and ten colleagues track the origins
of Native American cabins, structures that incorporated a range of
features borrowed from indigenous post-in ground building
traditions, Euroamerican horizontal notched-log construction, and
elements introduced by Africans and African Americans. Grounded in
archaeological investigation, their essays illuminate the
distinctive cabin forms developed by various southeastern Native
groups, including the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Catawba
peoples. In a rapidly changing social, economic, and political
landscape at the frontiers of an expansionist United States, the
log cabin, a northern European house form, proved equally adaptable
to the needs of settlers, slaves, and Native peoples. Each found
ways to make log cabins their own. Beneath these deceptively simple
hewn facades, indigenous principles of correctness guided
southeastern Indians' uses of interior cabin space, creations of
raised clay hearths, and maintenance of pits that gave occupants
access to the regenerative properties of the Beneath World. The
chapters in this volume make important contributions toward a
better understanding of houses and households in the Native
Southeast by marshalling new data, methods, and theory to address
an important but understudied phenomenon.
Although scholars have long recognized the mythic status of bears
in Indigenous North American societies of the past, this is the
first volume to synthesize the vast amount of archaeological and
historical research on the topic. Bears charts the special
relationship between the American black bear and humans in eastern
Native American cultures across thousands of years. These essays
draw on zooarchaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic
evidence from nearly 300 archaeological sites from Quebec to the
Gulf of Mexico. Contributors explore the ways bears have been
treated as something akin to another kind of human-in the words of
anthropologist Irving Hallowell, "other than human persons"-in
Algonquian, Cherokee, Iroquois, Meskwaki, Creek, and many other
Native cultures. Case studies focus on bear imagery in Native art
and artifacts; the religious and economic significance of bears and
bear products such as meat, fat, oil, and pelts; bears in Native
worldviews, kinship systems, and cosmologies; and the use of bears
as commodities in transatlantic trade. The case studies in Bears
demonstrate that bears were not only a source of food, but were
also religious, economic, and political icons within Indigenous
cultures. This volume convincingly portrays the black bear as one
of the most socially significant species in Native eastern North
America. A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley
P. Bullen Series
Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, "Powhatan's
Mantle" demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology,
anthropology, and cartography can be brought together in fresh and
meaningful ways to illuminate life in the early South. In a series
of provocative original essays, a dozen leading scholars show how
diverse Native Americans interacted with newcomers from Europe and
Africa during the three hundred years of dramatic change beginning
in the early sixteenth century.
For this new and expanded edition, the original contributors have
revisited their subjects to offer further insights based on years
of additional scholarship. The book includes four new essays, on
calumet ceremonialism, social diversity in French Louisiana, the
gendered nature of Cherokee agriculture, and the ideology of race
among Creek Indians. The result is a volume filled with detailed
information and challenging, up-to-date reappraisals reflecting the
latest interdisciplinary research, ranging from Indian mounds and
map symbolism to diplomatic practices and social structure, written
to interest fellow scholars and informed general readers.
William Bartram traveled throughout the American Southeast from
1773-1776. He occupies a unique place as an American Enlightenment
explorer, naturalist, writer, and artist whose work was widely
admired in his time and thereafter. Coleridge, the Wordsworths, and
other leading romantics found inspiration in his pages. Bartram's
most famous work, Travels has remained in print since the first
publication of the book in 1791. However, his writings on Indians
have received less attention than they deserve. This volume
contains all of Bartram's known writings on Native Americans: a new
version of "Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians,"
originally edited by E. G. Squier and first published in 1853; a
previously unpublished essay, "Some Hints and Observations
Concerning the Civilization of the Indians, or Aborigines of
America"; and extensive excerpts from Travels. These documents are
among the most valuable accounts we have of the Creeks and
Seminoles in the last half of the eighteenth century. Several
illustrations by Bartram are also included. The editors provide
information on the history of these documents and supply extensive
annotations. The book opens with a biographical essay on Bartram
and concludes with a thorough evaluation of his contributions to
southeastern Indian ethnohistory, anthropology, and archaeology.
The editors have identified and corrected a number of errors found
in the extant literature concerning Bartram and his writings.
A concise illustrated guidebook for those wishing to explore and
know more about the storied gateway that made possible Alabama's
development. Forged through the Creek Nation by the United States,
the "federal road" was developed as a communication artery to link
the east coast with Louisiana. The postal road created tensions
within the Creek Nation that resulted in a devastating war in
1813-1814. The Federal Road served as the primary artery of
emigration into Alabama after the forced surrender of vast acreage
by the Creek Indians following the Creek War. Central to
understanding Alabama's territorial and early statehood years, the
Federal Road was both a physical and symbolic thoroughfare that cut
a swath of shattering change through the land and cultures it
traversed. The road revolutionized Alabama's expansion, altering
the course of its development by playing a significant role in
sparking a cataclysmic war, facilitating unprecedented American
immigration, and enabling an associated radical transformation of
the land itself. The first half of The Old Federal Road in Alabama:
An Illustrated Guide offers a narrative history that includes brief
accounts of the construction of the road, the experiences of
historic travelers, and describes major changes to the road over
time. The authors vividly reconstruct the course of the road in
detail and make use of a wealth of well-chosen illustrations. Along
the way they give attention to the very terrain it traversed,
bringing to life what traveling the road must have really been like
and illuminating its story in a way few others have ever attempted.
The second half of the volume, ""Touring on the Old Federal Road in
Alabama,"" is divided into three parts-Eastern, Central, and
Southern-and serves as a modern traveler's guide to the Federal
Road. This section includes driving tours and maps, highlighting
historical sites and surviving portions of the old road and how to
visit them.
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