Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone

Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone
Title Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone PDF eBook
Author Robbie Franklyn Ethridge
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 536
Release 2009-11-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0803217595

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During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and region of instability and regrouping constituted a ?shatter zone.? ø In this anthology, archaeologists, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists analyze the shatter zone created in the colonial Southøby examining the interactions of American Indians and European colonists. The forces that destabilized the region included especially the frenzied commercial traffic in Indian slaves conducted by both Europeans and Indians, which decimated several southern Native communities; the inherently fluid political and social organization oføprecontact Mississippian chiefdoms; and the widespread epidemics that spread across the South. Using examples from a range of Indian communities?Muskogee, Catawba, Iroquois, Alabama, Coushatta, Shawnee, Choctaw, Westo, and Natchez?the contributors assess the shatter zone region as a whole, and the varied ways in which Native peoples wrestled with an increasingly unstable world and worked to reestablish order.

From Chicaza to Chickasaw

From Chicaza to Chickasaw
Title From Chicaza to Chickasaw PDF eBook
Author Robbie Ethridge
Publisher Univ of North Carolina Press
Pages 359
Release 2010-12-15
Genre Social Science
ISBN 080789933X

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In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using a framework that Ethridge calls the "Mississippian shatter zone" to explicate these tumultuous times, From Chicaza to Chickasaw examines the European invasion, the collapse of the precontact Mississippian world, and the restructuring of discrete chiefdoms into coalescent Native societies in a colonial world. The story of one group--the Chickasaws--is closely followed through this period.

Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South

Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South
Title Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South PDF eBook
Author Robin Beck
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 321
Release 2013-06-24
Genre History
ISBN 1107022134

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Offers a new framework for understanding the transformation of the Native American South during the first centuries of the colonial era.

Powhatan's Mantle

Powhatan's Mantle
Title Powhatan's Mantle PDF eBook
Author Gregory A. Waselkov
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 564
Release 2006-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780803298613

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Considered to be one of the all-time classic studies of southeastern Native peoples, Powhatan's Mantle proves more topical, comprehensive, and insightful than ever before in this revised edition for twenty-first century scholars and students.

Archaeological Perspectives on the Southern Appalachians

Archaeological Perspectives on the Southern Appalachians
Title Archaeological Perspectives on the Southern Appalachians PDF eBook
Author Ramie A. Gougeon
Publisher Univ. of Tennessee Press
Pages 327
Release 2015-03-10
Genre History
ISBN 1621901025

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"This volume demonstrates how archaeologists working in the Southern Appalachian region over the past 40 years have developed rich interpretations of prehistoric and historic Southeastern Native societies by examining them from multiple scales of analysis. The end results of these examinations demonstrate both the uses and the constraints of multiscalar approaches in reconstructing various lifeways across the Southeast"--

The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760

The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760
Title The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 PDF eBook
Author Robbie Ethridge
Publisher Univ. Press of Mississippi
Pages 410
Release 2010-12-01
Genre History
ISBN 160473955X

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With essays by Stephen Davis, Penelope Drooker, Patricia K. Galloway, Steven Hahn, Charles Hudson, Marvin Jeter, Paul Kelton, Timothy Pertulla, Christopher Rodning, Helen Rountree, Marvin T. Smith, and John Worth 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, 1540–1760, 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.

Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories

Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories
Title Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories PDF eBook
Author David V. Kaufman
Publisher University of Nebraska Press
Pages 258
Release 2020-10-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1496222237

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2019 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories David V. Kaufman offers a stunning relational analysis of social, cultural, and linguistic change in the Lower Mississippi Valley from 500 to 1700. He charts how linguistic evidence aids the understanding of earlier cultural and social patterns, traces the diaspora of indigenous peoples, and uncovers instances of human migration. Historical linguistics establishes evidence of contact between indigenous peoples in the linguistic record where other disciplinary approaches have obscured these connections. The Mississippi Valley is the heartland of early North American civilizations, a rich and diversified center of transportation for every part of eastern North America and to Mesoamerica. The Lower Mississippi Valley region emerged as the home of the earliest mound-building societies in the Americas and was home to some of the most impressive kingdoms encountered by Spanish and French explorers. The languages of the region provide the key to the realities experienced by these indigenous peoples, their histories, and their relationships. Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories focuses on relationships that constitute what linguists call a sprachbund (language union), or language area. Kaufman illuminates and articulates these linguistic relationships through a skillful examination of archaeological and ethnohistorical data. Clues to Lower Mississippi Valley Histories examines the relationship between linguistics and archaeology to elucidate the early history of the Lower Mississippi Valley.