Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler Telling Stories in Colonial America

Name: Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler Telling Stories in Colonial America
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ISBN: 9780674046863

ISBN-10: 0674046862

ISBN-13: 9780674046863

Edition: 2013

Authors: Joshua Piker

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Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the condemned man’s fate: the collision of European and Native American cultures, the struggle of Indians to preserve traditional ways of life, and tensions within the British Empire as the American Revolution approached.At the hand of his own nephew, Acorn…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 6/10/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Prologue: April 1, 1752


Introduction: Acorn Whistler and the Storytellers



Imperial



The Governor



The Governor's Story



National



The Emperor



The Emperor's Story



Local



The Family and Community



The Family and Community's Story



Colonial



The Colonists



The Colonists' Story


Epilogue: June 5, 1753


Abbreviations


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index