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John Howard Payne Papers, 3-Volume Set - Volumes 7-14 Of The Payne-Butrick Papers

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 This collection of John Howard Paynes Papers is a significant recovery of firsthand political and social histories of Indigenous cultures, particularly the Cherokees, a southeastern tribe, whose ancestral lands included parts of the present-day states of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina. The papers enable readers to understand how the Cherokees and many other American Indians endured and persevered as they encountered forced removal in the 1830s due to the Indian Removal Act. The papers are also a source of cultural revitalization, elucidating the work of Sequoyah, a Cherokee genius, who in 1821 introduced his syllabary, a phonemic system with eighty-five symbols. John Howard Payne (17911852), an American actor, poet, and playwright, was so taken by the Cherokees story that he lobbied Congress to forgo their removal and wrote articles in contemporary newspapers supporting Cherokees. In 1835 Payne journeyed to the Cherokee Nation and met with John Ross, Cherokee chief from 1828 to 1866, who found in Payne a colleague to assist him and other Cherokees with their cause against removal and in preserving their ancient social, spiritual, and political heritages. Payne gathered and recorded correspondence between Cherokees such as Ross, who was fluent in English, and U.S. officials. These papers include multiple correspondences, ratified and unratified treaties, contemporary newspaper articles, and resolutions sent to Congress appealing for justice for the Cherokees. Payne also assembled letters and writings by New England Congregationalist missionaries who resided in mission stations throughout the Cherokee Nation. Available in print for the first time, this remarkable repository of information provides a fuller understanding of the political climates Cherokees encountered throughout the early to mid-nineteenth century.
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Second Creek War - Interethnic Conflict And Collusion On A Collapsing Frontier

by John T. Ellisor

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 Historians have traditionally viewed the "Creek War of 1836" as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that, in fact, the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after "peace" was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west. Ellisor's study also broadly illuminates southern society just prior to the Indian removals, a time when many blacks, whites, and Natives lived in close proximity in the Old Southwest. In the Creek country, also called New Alabama, these ethnic groups began to develop a pluralistic society. When the 1830s cotton boom placed a premium on Creek land, however, dispossession of the Natives became an economic priority. Dispossessed and impoverished, some Creeks rose in armed revolt both to resist removal west and to drive the oppressors from their ancient homeland. Yet the resulting Second Creek War, which raged over three states, was fueled not only by Native determination but also by economic competition and was intensified not least by the massive government-sponsored land grab that constituted Indian removal. Because these circumstances also created fissures throughout southern society, both whites and blacks found it in their best interests to help the Creek insurgents. This first book-length examination of the Second Creek War shows how interethnic collusion and conflict characterized southern society during the 1830s.
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Kingdom Of Water - Adaptation And Survival In The Houma Nation

by J. Daniel D'Oney

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 A Kingdom of Water is a study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscapes under French, Spanish, British, and American imperial control between 1699 and 2005. After 1699 the Houma assimilated the French into their preexisting social and economic networks and played a vital role in the early history of Louisiana. After 1763 and Gallic retreat, both the British and Spanish laid claim to tribal homelands, and the Houma cleverly played one empire against the other. In the early 1700s the Houma began a series of adaptive relocations, and just before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 the nation began their last migration, a journey down Bayou Lafourche. In the early 1800s, as settlers pushed the nation farther down bayous and into the marshes of southeastern Louisiana, the Houma quickly adapted to their new physical environment. After the Civil War and consequent restructuring of class systems, the Houma found themselves caught in a three-tiered system of segregation. Realizing that education was one way to retain lands constantly under assault from trappers and oil companies, the Houma began their first attempt to integrate Terrebonne Parish schools in the early twentieth century, though their situation was not resolved until five decades later. In the early twenty-first century, the tribe is still fighting for federal recognition.
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Kingdom Of Water - Adaptation And Survival In The Houma Nation

by J. Daniel D'Oney

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 A Kingdom of Water is a study of how the United Houma Nation in Louisiana successfully navigated a changing series of political and social landscapes under French, Spanish, British, and American imperial control between 1699 and 2005. After 1699 the Houma assimilated the French into their preexisting social and economic networks and played a vital role in the early history of Louisiana. After 1763 and Gallic retreat, both the British and Spanish laid claim to tribal homelands, and the Houma cleverly played one empire against the other. In the early 1700s the Houma began a series of adaptive relocations, and just before the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 the nation began their last migration, a journey down Bayou Lafourche. In the early 1800s, as settlers pushed the nation farther down bayous and into the marshes of southeastern Louisiana, the Houma quickly adapted to their new physical environment. After the Civil War and consequent restructuring of class systems, the Houma found themselves caught in a three-tiered system of segregation. Realizing that education was one way to retain lands constantly under assault from trappers and oil companies, the Houma began their first attempt to integrate Terrebonne Parish schools in the early twentieth century, though their situation was not resolved until five decades later. In the early twenty-first century, the tribe is still fighting for federal recognition.
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Yamasee War - A Study Of Culture, Economy, And Conflict In The Colonial South

by William L. Ramsey

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 Offers a reappraisal of the Yamasee War, an event that stands alongside King Philip's War in New England and Pontiac's Rebellion as one of the three major "Indian wars" of the colonial era. This book argues that the Yamasee War may be the definitive watershed in the formation of the Old South.
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Moravian Springplace Mission To The Cherokees

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 Abridged edition of a diary written by Anna Rosina Gambold, a Moravian missionary to the Cherokee
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Bad Fruits Of The Civilized Tree - Alcohol And The Sovereignty Of The Cherokee Nation

by Izumi Ishii

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 Examines the role of alcohol among the Cherokees through more than two hundred years, from contact with white traders until Oklahoma reached statehood in 1907. This work also examines the ways in which alcohol was culturally integrated into Native society and how it served the overarching economic and political goals of the Cherokee Nation.
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Demanding The Cherokee Nation - Indian Autonomy And American Culture, 1830-1900

by Andrew Denson

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 Demanding the Cherokee Nation examines nineteenth-century Cherokee political rhetoric to address an enigma in American Indian history: the contradiction between the sovereignty of Indian nations and the political weakness of Indian communities. Making use of a rich collection of petitions, appeals, newspaper editorials, and other public records, Andrew Denson describes the ways in which Cherokees represented their people and their nation to non-Indians after their forced removal to Indian Territory in the 1830s. He argues that Cherokee writings on nationhood document a decades-long effort by tribal leaders to find a new model for American Indian relations in which Indian nations could coexist with a modernizing United States. Most non-Natives in the nineteenth century assumed that American development and progress necessitated the end of tribal autonomy, that at best the Indian nation was a transitional state for Native people on the way to assimilation. As Denson shows, however, Cherokee leaders found a variety of ways in which the Indian nation, as they defined it, belonged in the modern world. Tribal leaders responded to developments in the United States and adapted their defense of Indian autonomy to the great changes transforming American life in the middle and late nineteenth century. In particular, Cherokees in several ways found new justification for Indian nationhood in American industrialization.
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Invention Of The Creek Nation, 1670-1763

by Steven C. Hahn

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 Drawing on archaeological evidence and often-neglected Spanish source material, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763 explores the political history of the Creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama and the emergence of the Creek Nation during the colonial era in the American Southeast. In part a study of Creek foreign relations, this book examines the creation and application of the "neutrality" policy-defined here as the Coweta Resolution of 1718-for which the Creeks have long been famous, in an era marked by the imperial struggle for the American South. Also a study of the culture of internal Creek politics, this work shows the persistence of a "traditional" kinship-based political system in which town and clan affiliation remained supremely important. These traditions, coupled with political intrusions by the region's three European powers, promoted the spread of Creek factionalism and mitigated the development of a regional Creek Confederacy. But while traditions endured, the struggle to maintain territorial integrity against Britain also promoted political innovation. In this context the territorially defined Creek Nation emerged as a legal concept in the era of the French and Indian War, as imperial policies of an earlier era gave way to the territorial politics that marked the beginning of a new one.
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Rivers Of Sand - Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, And Ethnic Cleansing In The American South

by Christopher D. Haveman

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 A study of the Creek home front in Alabama during the removal period, their experiences moving west, and the ways they reestablished their lives in Oklahoma Territory.
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Choctaw Resurgence In Mississippi - Race, Class, And Nation Building In The Jim Crow South, 1830-1977

by Katherine M. B. Osburn

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 When the Choctaws were removed from their Mississippi homeland to Indian Territory in 1830, several thousand remained behind, planning to take advantage of Article 14 in the removal treaty, which promised that any Choctaws who wished to remain in Mississippi could apply for allotments of land. This book traces the Choctaw's tribal rebirth.
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Up From These Hills - Memories Of A Cherokee Boyhood

by Leonard Carson Lambert e Michael Lambert

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 Provides a grounded, yet poignant, description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930s and 1940s in the mountains of western North Carolina and on a sharecropper's farm in eastern Tennessee. Leonard Carson Lambert paints a vivid picture of life on the reservation and off, documenting work, family life, education, religion, and more.
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Cherokee Women - Gender And Culture Change, 1700-1835

by Theda Perdue

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 Examines the roles and responsibilities of Cherokee women during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, a time of intense cultural change. This book develops a complex view of the effects of contact on Native gender relations, arguing that Cherokee conceptions of gender persisted long after contact.
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Searching For The Bright Path - The Mississippi Choctaws From Prehistory To Removal

by James Taylor Carson

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 Tracing the Choctaws from their origins in the Mississippian cultures of late prehistory to the early nineteenth century, this work shows how the Choctaws struggled to adapt to life in a New World altered radically by contact while retaining their sense of identity and place. It also makes a theoretical contribution to ethnohistory.
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Sacred Sites - The Secret History Of Southern California

by Susan Suntree

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Rivers Of Sand - Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, And Ethnic Cleansing In The American South

by Christopher D. Haveman

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 A study of the Creek home front in Alabama during the removal period, their experiences moving west, and the ways they reestablished their lives in Oklahoma Territory.
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The Second Creek War - Interethnic Conflict And Collusion On A Collapsing Frontier

by John T. Ellisor

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Yukon - The Last Frontier

by Melody Webb

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 Successive waves of traders, trappers, explorers, soldiers, missionaries, settlers, steamboat pilots, road builders, and aviators have come to the Yukon, bringing economic and social changes. This book presents the history of the Yukon Basin of Canada and Alaska that shows how much and how little has changed there in the last two centuries.
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Rising From The Ashes - Survival, Sovereignty, And Native America

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Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez - The Improbable Life Of A Cuban American Baseball Star

by Kat D. Williams

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 Kat D. Williams traces Isabel "Lefty" Alvarez's life from her childhood in Cuba to her reinvention of herself as a professional American baseball player, illuminating the importance of sport as a source of stability in a life defined by challenges.
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A Kingdom Of Water - Adaptation And Survival In The Houma Nation

by J. Daniel D'Oney

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Quilting Lessons - Notes From The Scrap Bag Of A Writer And Quilter

by Janet Catherine Berlo

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 Penetrates to the very heart of women's lives, focusing on their relationships to family and friends, to work, to daily tasks. This book searches for meaning at mid-life, a search for an integration of career and creativity.
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Rescue By Rail - Troop Transfer And The Civil War In The West, 1863

by Roger Pickenpaugh

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 Between 23 and 25 September, 1863 the Eleventh and Twelfth Corps of the Army of the Potomac were sent across the Appalachians to strengthen Union troops in the struggle for supremacy in Eastern Tennessee. This is the story of that Federal troop movement by rail and of the corresponding Confederate transfer of General James Longstreet's troops.
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Workers, Neighbors And Citizens - The Revolution In Mexico City

by John Lear

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 Examining the mobilization of workers and the urban poor in Mexico City from the eve of the 1910 revolution through the early 1920s, this book provides an analysis of the neglected working class of Mexico City and their role in the Mexican Revolution.
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