Powhatan's Mantle

by Waselkov, Gregory A.

• ISBN13: 9780803298613
• ISBN10: 0803298617
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-12-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

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 course aimed at covering either southeastern Indians or southeastern colonial history in any real depth, it should be required reading."Georgia Historical Quarterly. "The book is flawless in terms of its presentation."Southeastern Archaeology. Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians,Powhatan's Mantledemonstrates 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. Gregory A. Waselkov is a professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama. He is the coeditor ofWilliam Bartram on the Southeastern Indians(Nebraska 2002). Peter H. Wood is a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author ofStrange New Land: Africans in Colonial Americaand a coauthor of the U.S. history textbookCreated Equal. Tom Hatley is Sequoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University and the author ofThe Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution. Contributors include: Ian W. Brown, Amy Turner Bushnell, Kathleen DuVal, Patricia Galloway, Tom Hatley, Vernon James Knight Jr., Martha W. McCartney, James H. Merrell, Stephen R. Potter, Claudio Saunt, Marvin T. Smith, Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Daniel H. Usner Jr., Gregory A. Waselkov, and Peter H. Wood.

Author Biography

Gregory A. Waselkov is a professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama. He is the coeditor of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians (Nebraska 2002). Peter H. Wood is a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America and a coauthor of the U.S. history textbook Created Equal. Tom Hatley is Sequoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University and the author of The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution.
Contributors include: Ian W. Brown, Amy Turner Bushnell, Kathleen DuVal, Patricia Galloway, Tom Hatley, Vernon James Knight Jr., Martha W. McCartney, James H. Merrell, Stephen R. Potter, Claudio Saunt, Marvin T. Smith, Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Daniel H. Usner Jr., Gregory A. Waselkov, and Peter H. Wood.

Table of Contents

General Introduction to the Revised Edition	1	(18)
The Editors
Part One, Geography and Population
Introduction	19	(8)
Peter H. Wood
The Land and Water Communication Systems of the Southeastern Indians	27	(16)
Helen Hornbeck Tanner
Aboriginal Population Movements in the Early Historic Period Interior Southeast	43	(14)
Marvin T. Smith
The Changing Population of the Colonial South	57	(76)
An Overview by Race and Region, 1685-1790
Peter H. Wood
Interconnectedness and Diversity in "French Louisiana"	133	(30)
Kathleen DuVal
American Indians in Colonial New Orleans	163	(26)
Daniel H. Usner. Jr.
Part Two, Politics and Economics
Introduction	189	(6)
Gregory A. Waselkov
Ruling "the Republic of Indians" in Seventeenth-Century Florida	195	(20)
Amy Turner Bushnell
Early English Effects on Virginia Algonquian Exchange and Tribute in the Tidewater Potomac	215	(28)
Stephen R. Potter
Cockacoeske, Queen of Pamunkey	243	(24)
Diplomat and Suzeraine
Martha W. McCartney
"Our Bond of Peace"	267	(38)
Patterns of Intercultural Exchange in the Carolina Piedmont, 1650-1750	267	(38)
James H. Merrell
Cherokee Women Farmers Hold Their Ground	305	(34)
Tom Hatley
Part Three, Symbols and Society
Introduction	339	(6)
Tom Hatley
"The Chief Who Is Your Father"	345	(26)
Choctaw and French Views of the Diplomatic Relation
Patricia Galloway
The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast as Observed Archaeologically	371	(50)
Ian W. Brown
Symbolism of Mississippian Mounds	421	(14)
Vernon James Knight Jr.
Indian Maps of the Colonial Southeast	435	(68)
Gregory A. Waselkov
The Graysons' Dilemma	503	(18)
A Creek Family Confronts the Science of Race
Claudio Saunt
The Contributors	521	(4)
Index	525