Okfuskee A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America

Name: Okfuskee A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America
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ISBN: 9780674022539

ISBN-10: 067402253X

ISBN-13: 9780674022539

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joshua Piker

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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…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Peculiar Connections



The Town and its Neighbors



Okfuskee and the British, 1708-1745



Okfuskee and the British, 1749-1774



Leaving Okfuskee



The Town and its People



Agriculture and Livestock



Newcomers in the "Old White Town"



Big Women and Mad Men


Conclusion: "The Fiends of the Tallapoosie"


Notes


Index