Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial SoutheastGregory A. Waselkov, Peter H. Wood, M. Thomas Hatley Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatan?s Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and cartography can be brought together in fresh and meaningful ways to illuminate life in the early South. In a series of provocative original essays, a dozen leading scholars show how diverse Native Americans interacted with newcomers from Europe and Africa during the three hundred years of dramatic change beginning in the early sixteenth century. For this new and expanded edition, the original contributors have revisited their subjects to offer further insights based on years of additional scholarship. The book includes four new essays, on calumet ceremonialism, social diversity in French Louisiana, the gendered nature of Cherokee agriculture, and the ideology of race among Creek Indians. The result is a volume filled with detailed information and challenging, up-to-date reappraisals reflecting the latest interdisciplinary research, ranging from Indian mounds and map symbolism to diplomatic practices and social structure, written to interest fellow scholars and informed general readers. |
Contents
Part One Geography and Population | 1 |
Aboriginal Population Movements | 43 |
The Changing Population of the Colonial South | 57 |
Interconnectedness and Diversity | 133 |
American Indians in Colonial New Orleans | 163 |
Part Two Politics and Economics | 190 |
Diplomat and Suzeraine | 243 |
Our Bond of Peace | 267 |
The Chief Who Is Your Father | 345 |
The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast | 371 |
195 | 412 |
Symbolism of Mississippian Mounds | 421 |
Indian Maps of the Colonial Southeast | 435 |
Stephen R Potter | 491 |
The Graysons Dilemma | 503 |
The Contributors | 521 |
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