The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763U of Nebraska Press, 1 jan 2004 - 338 pagina's Drawing on archaeological evidence and utilizing often neglected Spanish source material, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670?1763, 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. In part a study of Creek foreign relations, this book examines the creation and application of the ?neutrality? policy?defined here as the Coweta Resolution of 1718?for which the Creeks have long been famous, in an era marked by the imperial struggle for the American South. Also a study of the culture of internal Creek politics, this work shows the persistence of a ?traditional? kinship-based political system in which town and clan affiliation remained supremely important. These traditions, coupled with political intrusions of the region?s three European powers, promoted the spread of Creek factionalism and mitigated the development of a regional Creek Confederacy. But while traditions persisted, the struggle to maintain territorial integrity against Britain also promoted political innovation. In this context, the territorially defined Creek Nation emerged as a legal concept in the era of the French and Indian War, as imperial policies of an earlier era gave way to the territorial politics that marked the beginning of a new one. |
Inhoudsopgave
Acknowledgments | |
Series Editors Introduction | |
The Question of the Creek Confederacy | 1 |
Tall Coweta | 10 |
Enemigos | 48 |
A New World Order | 81 |
The Challenge of TripleNation Diplomacy | 121 |
Oglethorpes Friends and Enemies | 149 |
The Twin | 186 |
The Invention of the Creek Nation | 229 |
The Legacy of the Imperial Era | 271 |
Notes | 279 |
Bibliography | 311 |
Index | 333 |
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Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
Abika Acorn Whistler AGI-SD Alabama alliance American Apalachee Apalachicola appears April Atkin attack August Augustine Bosomworth BPRO-SC Brims Brims's busk Charles Town Chattahoochee Chattahoochee River Cherokees chief of Coweta Chiefdoms Chigelly Chipacasi Chislacaliche clan Colonial commissions Coosa Coweta Coweta Resolution Creek chiefs Creek country Creek Indians Creek leaders Creek Nation Creek political Creek towns Cusabo Cussita diplomacy DRIA English traders European Fitch Florida folder French Georgia Glen Glover Governor headmen History Indian allies January JCHA-SC Journal Juricek King kinship land Lower Creeks Lyttleton Papers Malatchi Marquez Matheos McDowell mico military mission Mississippian Montiano Musgrove Nairne Oakfuskee Ochese Creek Ocheses Oglethorpe Oglethorpe's peace Peña Pensacola reel ritual River Ross Papers Savannah slaves South Carolina South Carolina Gazette Southeastern Indians Southern Frontier Spain Spanish Florida Stetson Collection talks Tallapoosa Tallapoosa River Tallassee territory Timucuan Tomochichi trade treaty Tuckebatchee Uchise Upper Creek warriors Westos Worth Collection Yamacraws Yamasee War Yamasees
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