Books in the Indians of the Southeast series

In 1970 the Seminoles lived in relative poverty, dependent on the Bureau of Indian Affairs, tourist trade, cattle breeding, handicrafts, and truck farming. By 2006 they were operating six casinos, and in 2007 they purchased Hard Rock International for $965 million. This book relates how economic changes have affected everyday life and values.

A study of the Creek home front in Alabama during the removal period, their experiences moving west, and the ways they reestablished their lives in Oklahoma Territory.

A study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana has successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscapes since 1699.

A journal for understanding Cherokee culture and history during the early 19th century. It includes entries which look at Cherokee life and American missionary activities during the early nineteenth century. It focuses on the daily lives and personalities of individual Cherokees, as well as on various aspects of Cherokee politics and religion.

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 century. This book shows how the children of intermarriages found ways to bridge what seemed to be an unbridgeable divide.

When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. This book traces the Choctaw's tribal rebirth.

Drawing on archaeological evidence and utilizing often neglected Spanish source material, this book explores the political history of the Creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama and the emergence of the Creek Nation during the colonial era in the American Southeast.

Provides a grounded, yet poignant, description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930s and 1940s in the mountains of western North Carolina and on a sharecropper's farm in eastern Tennessee. Leonard Carson Lambert paints a vivid picture of life on the reservation and off, documenting work, family life, education, religion, and more.

Abridged edition of a diary written by Anna Rosina Gambold, a Moravian missionary to the Cherokee

A study of the Second Creek War and its impact on antebellum southern society.

Provides a thorough reappraisal of the Yamasee War. By arguing that the Yamasee War may be the definitive watershed in the formation of the Old South, Ramsey challenges traditional arguments about the war's origins and positions the prewar concerns of Native Americans within the context of recent studies of the Indian slave trade and the Atlantic economy.

The Creeks and Seminoles (Muscogulges) were the largest group of Indians living on the frontier. In Georgia, Alabama, and Florida they manifested a geographical and cultural, but not a political, cohesiveness. This book provides an analysis of the course of Creek and Seminole history. It is suitable for students of southeastern Indian culture.

Examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. This book develops a complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, arguing that Cherokee conceptions of gender persisted long after contact.

Documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern US. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of this trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society.

This landmark two-volume set is the richest and most important extant collection of information about traditional Cherokee culture. Because many of the Cherokees' own records were lost during their forced removal to the west, the Payne-Butrick Papers are the most detailed written source about the Cherokee Nation during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Offers a study of an American Indian group showing the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. This book discusses their origins, their first contact with Europeans, and, their fluctuation in population during the eighteenth century.

Tells the story of the Choctaws which is told through the lives of two remarkable leaders, Taboca and Franchimastabe, during a period of revolutionary change, 1750-1830.

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Native peoples inhabiting the Lower Mississippi Valley confronted increasing domination by colonial powers, disastrous reductions in population, and the threat of being marginalized by a new cotton economy. This study talks about their strategies of resistance and adaptation to these changes.

Contains the author's known writings on Native Americans: a version of "Observations on the Creek and Cherokee Indians", "Some Hints and Observations Concerning the Civilization of the Indians, or Aborigines of America"; and excerpts from Travels. This title provides information on the history of these documents and supply annotations.

Born in a small village in the Everglades in 1920, Buffalo Tiger grew up immersed in the traditional customs and language of the Miccosukees. As the modern world encroached on the Miccosukees and the Everglades shrank around them, he became an energetic and outspoken leader of the community. This is the biography of a tireless leader.

Presents an overview of the modern history and identity of the Native peoples in 20th-century North Carolina, including the Lumbees, the Tuscaroras, the Waccamaw Sioux, the Occaneechis, the Meherrins, the Haliwa-Saponis, and the Coharies. This title traces the strategic response of these Native groups in North Carolina to postwar society.

Studies the effects of shifting governmental attitudes and policies on the Florida Indians. This book charts the social, economic, and political experiences of the tribe during those volatile decades. By the end of the account, readers understand that the Seminole tribe has become organized, functioning, and sovereign, with a stable economic base.

Examines the role of alcohol among the Cherokees through more than two hundred years, from contact with white traders until Oklahoma reached statehood in 1907. This work also examines the ways in which alcohol was culturally integrated into Native society and how it served the overarching economic and political goals of the Cherokee Nation.

Traces the likely origin of the Choctaw people, their movements and interactions with other native groups in the South, and their response to Euro-American contacts. This title not only provides information on the Choctaws but also illuminates the entire field of colonial-era southeastern history.

Tracing the Choctaws from their origins in the Mississippian cultures of late prehistory to the early nineteenth century, this work shows how the Choctaws struggled to adapt to life in a New World altered radically by contact while retaining their sense of identity and place. It also makes a theoretical contribution to ethnohistory.

For centuries, the Caddos occupied the southern prairies and woodlands across portions of Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Weaving together French and Spanish archival sources, Caddo oral history, and archaeological evidence, this book looks at the political, social, economic, and religious forces that molded Caddo culture.

Examines the relationship between the Indian slave trade and the spread of Old World diseases in the colonial southeastern US. This book traces the pathology of early European encounters with Native peoples of Southeast and concludes that Natives had their most significant experience with new germs long after initial contacts in the 16th century.