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Okfuskee : a Creek Indian town in colonial America
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Okfuskee : a Creek Indian town in colonial America

Author: Joshua Aaron Piker
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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 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
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Piker, Joshua Aaron.
Okfuskee.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2004
(OCoLC)607459700
Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Joshua Aaron Piker
ISBN: 0674013352 9780674013353 0674013417 9780674013414
OCLC Number: 53992896
Description: xi, 270 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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."
Responsibility: Joshua Piker.
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Abstract:

"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 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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