Okfuskee - A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America

Informationen zum Autor Joshua Piker is Associate Professor of History! University of Oklahoma. Klappentext A work of original scholarship and compelling sweep! "Okfuskee" is a community-centered Indian history with an explicitly comparativist agenda. Joshua Piker uses the history of Okfuskee! an eighteenth-century Creek town! to reframe standard narratives of both Native and American experiences. This unique! detailed perspective on local life in a Native society allows us to truly understand both the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses. At the same time! by comparing the Okfuskees' experiences to those of their contemporaries in colonial British America! the book provides a nuanced discussion of the ways in which Native and Euro-American histories intersected with! and diverged from! each other. Piker examines the diplomatic ties that developed between the Okfuskees and their British neighbors; the economic implications of the Okfuskees' shifting world view; the integration of British traders into the town; and the shifting gender and generational relationships in the community. By both providing an in-depth investigation of a colonial-era Indian town in Indian country and placing the Okfuskees within the processes central to early American history! Piker offers a Native history with important implications for American history. Zusammenfassung This perspective on life in a Native society offers understanding of the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses. By comparing the experiences of the Okfuskee and their British American contemporaries! the book relates how Native and Euro-American histories intersected with! and diverged from! each other. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Peculiar Connections I. The Town and Its Neighbors 1. Okfuskee and the British! 1708-1745: Formation! Assertion! Indecision 2. Okfuskee and Charleston! 1749-1774: Decision! Correction! Reassertion 3. Leaving Okfuskee: Economic Activities Outside of Town II. The Town and Its People 4. Agriculture and Livestock: Changing Patterns of Land-Use in Okfuskee 5. Newcomers in the "Old White Town": Traders and Economic Life in Okfuskee 6. Big Women and Mad Men: The Okfuskees' Experiences with Gender and Generations Conclusion: "The Fiends of the Tallapoosie": Nuyaka! Tohopeka! and the Rise of Andrew Jackson Notes Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Piker, Joshua Aaron Piker, Piker Joshua
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2006
• EAN: 9780674022539
• ISBN: 978-0-674-02253-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), c 1500 onwards to present day, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, HISTORY / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas