The transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 / essays by Marvin T. Smith ... [and others] ; edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Smith, Marvin T.

Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, 1955-

Hudson, Charles M.

Conference Name:

Porter L. Fortune Chancellor's Symposium on Southern History (1998 : University of Mississippi)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Southern States--Social conditions--16th century--Congresses.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Southern States--Social conditions--17th century--Congresses.

Indians of North America--Southern States--Social conditions--18th century--Congresses.

Social conditions.

Southern States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxxix, 369 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2002]

Summary:

The first two hundred years of Western civilization in the Americas was a time when fundamental and sometimes catastrophic changes occurred in Native American communities in the South. In The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists provide perspectives on how this era shaped American Indian society for later generations and how it even affects these communities today. This collection of essays presents the most current scholarship on the social history of the South, identifying and examining the historical forces, trends, and events that were attendant to the formation of the Indians of the colonial South.

The essayists discuss how Southeastern Indian culture and society evolved. They focus on such aspects as the introduction of European diseases to the New World, long-distance migration and relocation, the influences of the Spanish mission system, the effects of the English plantation system, the northern fur trade of the English, and the French, Dutch, and English trade of Indian slaves and deerskins in the South. This book covers the full geographic and social scope of the Southeast, including the indigenous peoples of Florida, Virginia, Maryland, the Appalachian mountains, the Carolina Piedmont, the Ohio Valley, and the Central and Lower Mississippi Valleys.

Contents:

Aboriginal Population Movements in the Postcontact Southeast / Marvin T. Smith 3

The Great Southeastern Smallpox Epidemic, 1696-1700: The Region's First Major Epidemic? / Paul Kelton 21

Spanish Missions and the Persistence of Chiefly Power / John E. Worth 39

Trouble Coming Southward: Emanations through and from Virginia, 1607-1675 / Helen C. Rountree 65

The Mother of Necessity: Carolina, the Creek Indians, and the Making of a New Order in the American Southeast, 1670-1763 / Steven C. Hahn 79

The Ohio Valley, 1550-1750: Patterns of Sociopolitical Coalescence and Dispersal / Penelope B. Drooker 115

The Cultural Landscape of the North Carolina Piedmont at Contact / R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr. 135

Reconstructing the Coalescence of Cherokee Communities in Southern Appalachia / Christopher B. Rodning 155

From Prehistory through Protohistory to Ethnohistory in and near the Northern Lower Mississippi Valley / Marvin D. Jeter 177

Colonial Period Transformations in the Mississippi Valley: Disintegration, Alliance, Confederation, Playoff / Patricia Galloway 225

Social Changes among the Caddo Indians in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries / Timothy K. Perttula 249.

Notes:

"This volume contains the proceedings of the 1998 Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium at the University of Mississippi"--P. vii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-359) and index.

ISBN:

1578063515 :

OCLC:

50418218