Brothers of Coweta : kinship, empire, and revolution in the eighteenth-century Muscogee world / Bryan C. Rindfleisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rindfleisch, Bryan C., author.

Contributor:

Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Creek Indians--Georgia--Coweta County--History--18th century.

Creek Indians.

Creek Indians--Family relationships--History--18th century.

Creek Indians--Politics and government--18th century.

Creek Indians--Civilization.

Civilization.

Creek Indians--Politics and government.

Families.

History.

Coweta County (Ga.)--Race relations--History--18th century.

Coweta County (Ga.).

Race relations.

Georgia--Coweta County.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 194 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2021]

Summary:

"[Examines] how family and clan fundamentally structured the Creek world, and ... how a particular family and clan emerged out of the historical shadows to become central players in the Creek world and shaped the forces of empire, colonialism, and revolution that transformed the South during the eighteenth-century. The manuscript pieces together the story of a specific Creek Indian family in eighteenth-century America, and their experiences at the crossroads of the British, French, and Spanish empires in the American South. ... for the most part, scholars of early America and Native America have been unable (and in some cases unwilling) to fully appreciate the kinship, clan, and familial dynamics of Indigenous groups in North America ... However, European authorities, imperial agents, merchants, and a host of other individuals left a surprising paper trail when it came to two Creek personalities: Escotchaby and Sempoyaffee of Coweta, brothers. By following that trail and drawing upon the broader literature related to the Creek Indians in the eighteenth-century, Rindfleisch seeks to recover the intensely intimate and familial dimensions of the Creek world ... The central importance of family and clan in the eighteenth-century Creek world has yet to be fully explored or articulated by scholars of early America and Native America. Instead, historians have demonstrated how one's loyalties to a talwa or community like Coweta, regional identities like Upper Creeks and Lower Creeks, or even national aspirations of a Creek Nation or Confederacy proved foundational throughout a Creek person's life. And while scholars concede that 'family was...a critical component of eighteenth-century Creek local life, particularly for structuring political relations within a community,' there is little that historians understand about the importance of family and clan within the Creek world ... Yet the central premise of the book is to suggest that we can in fact understand and read more into the ways in which family and clan directed the Creek world, as much as - if not more than - talwa, region, and nation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: One. The Muscogee World, 1700

1730

Early Years: Family and Kinship, the Huti, and Creation Stories

From Boys to Men: Becoming Young Men in the Muscogee World

Two. The Tustenogy's World, 1730

1756

Coweta the Talwa, Sempoyaffee the Tustenogy

Sempoyaffee and the Politics of Talwas and Empires

Three. The Cherokee King's World, 1730

The Cherokee King: The Intersection of Muscogee and Cherokee Worlds

Four. The Muscogee World And Imperial Crisis, 1756

1763

The Politics of the Huti and Talwa during the Seven Years' War

The Treaty of Augusta, 1763

Five. The Muscogee World And Colonial Crisis, 1763

1775

1763

1773. A Decade of Crisis

The Second Treaty of Augusta and the Coweta Conflict

Six. The Muscogee World In The Revolutionary Crisis, 1775

1783

The Coweta Conflict and the American Revolution.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-187) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Rindfleisch, Bryan C. Brothers of Coweta

ISBN:

9781643362021

164336202X

9781643362038

1643362038

OCLC:

1223068426

Publisher Number:

99990334936