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Study of how children of Creek Indians and Euro-American settlers reflect the changing nature of native-white relations in pre-19th century American southeast

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Series Editors’ Introduction

Introduction: The Problem of Identity in the Early American Southeast

Chapter 1: The Invitation Within

Chapter 2: “This Asylum of Liberty”

Chapter 3: Kin and Strangers

Chapter 4: Parenting and Practice

Chapter 5: In Two Worlds

Chapter 6: Tustunnuggee Hutkee and the Limits of Dual Identities

Chapter 7: The Insistence of Race

Epilogue: Race, Clan, and Creek

Abbreviations

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Andrew K. Frank is the Allen Morris Associate Professor of History at Florida State University.  He is the author or editor of eight books, including The Routledge Historical Atlas of the American South.

Reviews

“While Frank skillfully contextualizes his story within Creek and colonial history, his focus is on the people who, like Cornell, were Creeks and white southerners. . . . Elegantly written, impeccably organized, and deeply researched in English and Spanish sources, Creeks and Southerners is a welcome addition to the booming field of pre-removal Creek history.”—Kathleen DuVal, Western Historical Quarterly

"An interesting source for studying the effects of early biculturalism."—Denver Westerners Roundup

"Creeks and Southerners is a sophisticated, well-written account of Creek society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.  Frank draws on . . . many fascinating frontier characters [relating them] to the larger forces forging a new social landscape around them."—Gregory A. Waselkov, Alabama Review

"Creeks and Southerners provides useful insight into the formation of Creek identity.  It would be useful to historians studying European-Native American relations or Creek history. . . . Frank's story offers a good deal of insight into the various conflicts and increasing tensions that ended with forced Indian removal."—Jeremy Pressgrove, Southern Historian

"Frank has significantly expanded our knowledge about how the endurance of clan and village life in one southeastern Indian society shaped intercultural relations over a long span of time."—Daniel H. Usner, Jr., American Historical Review

“Serious studies of race and identity in the American South are forced to confront a highly charged and complex history that continues to haunt us today. As a new attempt to see through those dark waters, Andrew K. Frank’s Creeks and Southerners is a welcome and courageous work of scholarship. . . . [It] is a valuable effort to gain insight into a neglected area of southern scholarship.”—William L. Ramsey, Journal of American History