Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era

by Jackson, Jason Baird

• ISBN13: 9780803240414
• ISBN10: 0803240414
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-11-01
• Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr

Summary

In Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era, folklorist and anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson and nine scholars of Yuchi (Euchee) Indian culture and history offer a revisionist and in-depth portrait of Yuchi community and society. This first interdisciplinary history of the Yuchi people corrects the historical record, which often submerges the Yuchi within the Creek Confederacy instead of acknowledging the Yuchi as a separate tribe. By looking at the oral, historical, ethnographic, linguistic, and archaeological record, contributors illuminate Yuchi political circumstances and cultural identity. Focusing on the pre-Removal era, the volume shows that from the entradaof Hernando de Soto into the American South in 1541 to the Yuchis' internal migrations throughout the hinterlands of the South and their entanglement with the Creeks to the maintenance of community and identity today, the Yuchis have persisted as a distinct people. This volume provides a voice to an indigenous nation that previous generations of scholars have misidentified or erroneously assumed to be a simple constituent of the Creek Nation. In doing so, it offers a fuller picture of Yuchi social realities since the arrival of Europeans and other non-natives in their Southern homelands.

Author Biography

Jason Baird Jackson is an associate professor of folklore and American Studies at Indiana University. He is the author of Yuchi Ceremonial Life: Performance, Meaning, and Tradition in a Contemporary Native American Community (Nebraska, 2003).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Maps	p. x
List of Tables	p. xi
Introduction: On Studying Yuchi History	p. xiii
Deep Time and Genetic Relationships: Yuchi Linguistic History Revisited	p. 1
Enigmatic Origins: On the Yuchi of the Contact Era	p. 33
Reconsidering Chestowee: The 1713 Raid in Regional Perspective	p. 43
Yuchi in the Lower Savannah River Valley: Historical Context and Archaeological Confirmation	p. 73
The Yuchi Indians along the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers (1715-1836): A Synthesis	p. 101
"They Look upon the Yuchis as Their Vassals": An Early History of Yuchi-Creek Political Relations	p. 123
Reconsidering Coalescence: Yuchi and Shawnee Survival Strategies in the Colonial Southeast	p. 155
To the Backcountry and Back Again: The Yuchi's Search for Stability in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast	p. 189
A Band of Outsiders: Yuchi Identity among the Nineteenth-Century Florida Seminoles	p. 215
List of Contributors	p. 233
Index	p. 235
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