Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Galloway is Special Projects Officer, Mississippi Department of Archives and History. She is the editor of The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis (Nebraska 1989) and The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History, Historiography, and "Discovery" in the Southeast (Nebraska 1997). Klappentext Starting with the basic archaeological evidence and the written records of early Spanish and English visitors! Patricia Galloway 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. She thereby creates the first careful and complete history of the tribe in the early modern period. This rich and detailed work-winner of the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Prize! the James Mooney Award! and the McLemore Prize-not only provides much new information on the Choctaws but illuminates the entire field of colonial-era southeastern history and provides a model for ethnographic studies. Patricia Galloway is Special Projects Officer! Mississippi Department of Archives and History. She is the editor of The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis (Nebraska 1989) and The Hernando de Soto Expedition: History! Historiography! and "Discovery" in the Southeast (Nebraska 1997). Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Galloway, Patricia Kay Galloway, GALLOWAY PATRICIA
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.1998
• EAN: 9780803270701
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7070-1
• No. of pages: 413
• Series: Indians of the Southeast (Pape; Indians of the Southeast; Indians of the Southeast (Pape
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Amerikanische Geschichte, Nordamerika (USA und Kanada), HISTORY / Native American, HISTORY / North America, Ethnic Issues, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies