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Powhatan's mantle : Indians in the colonial Southeast
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Powhatan's mantle : Indians in the colonial Southeast

Author: Gregory A Waselkov; Peter H Wood; M Thomas Hatley
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2006.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : English : Rev. and expanded edView all editions and formats
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Demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and cartography can be brought together in fresh and meaningful ways to illuminate life in the early South. This work shows how  Read more...

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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Gregory A Waselkov; Peter H Wood; M Thomas Hatley
ISBN: 9780803298613 0803298617 9780803298613
OCLC Number: 68694006
Description: 550 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: The land and water communication systems of the Southeastern Indians / Helen Hornbeck Tanner --
Aboriginal population movements in the early historic period interior Southeast / Marvin T. Smith --
The changing population of the colonial South : an overview by race and region, 1685-1790 / Peter H. Wood --
Interconnectedness and diversity in "French Louisiana" / Kathleen DuVal --
American Indians in colonial New Orleans / Daniel H. Usner Jr. --
Ruling "the Republic of Indians" in seventeenth-century Florida / Amy Turner Bushnell --
Early English effects on Virginia Algonquian exchange and tribute in the tidewater Potomac / Stephen R. Potter --
Cockacoeske, queen of Pamunkey : diplomat and suzeraine / Martha W. McCartney --
"Our bond of peace" : patterns of intercultural exchange in the Carolina Piedmont, 1650-1750 / James H. Merrell --
Cherokee women farmers hold their ground / Tom Hatley --
"The chief who is your father" : Choctaw and French views of the diplomatic relation / Patricia Galloway --
The Calumet ceremony in the Southeast as observed archaeologically / Ian W. Brown --
Symbolism of Mississippian mounds / Vernon James Knight Jr --
Indian maps of the colonial Southeast / Gregory A. Waselkov --
The Graysons' dilemma : a creek family confronts the science of race / Claudio Saunt.
Responsibility: edited & with an introduction by Gregory A. Waselkov, Peter H. Wood, and Tom Hatley.
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Praise for the first edition: "Thought-provoking and stimulating ... an important work that enhances one's knowledge of the colonial southeastern Indians."--North Carolina Historical Review "For any Read more...

 
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