Zamumo's Gifts Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast

Name: Zamumo's Gifts Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast
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ISBN: 9780812222234

ISBN-10: 0812222237

ISBN-13: 9780812222234

Edition: 2009

Authors: Joseph M. Hall

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In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy or traded commodities for profit, Natives and newcomers alike used the exchange of goods such as cloth, deerskin, muskets, and sometimes people as a way of securing their influence. Gifts and trade enabled early colonies to survive and later colonies to prosper. Conversely, they upset the social balance of chiefdoms like Zamumo's and promoted the rise of new and powerful Indian…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 12/13/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.02" wide x 8.90" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Joseph M. Hall, Jr. is Associate Professor of History at Bates College.



List of Abbreviations


Introduction



The Spirit of a Feather: The Politics of Mississippian Exchange



Floods and Feathers: From the Mississippian to the Floridian



Seeking the Atlantic: The Growth of Trade



Following the White Path: Migration and the Muskogees' Quest for Security



Creating White Hearts: Anxious Alliances amid the Slave Trade



The Yamasee War: Trade Reformed, a Region Reoriented



Cries of ''Euchee!'': Imperial Trade in a Creek Southeast


Conclusion: Gifts and Trade, Towns and Empires


Notes


Glossary of Native Place Names


Index


Acknowledgments