About the Author

John R. Swanton received one of the first Ph.D.s awarded in this country, from Harvard University in 1900, and was head of the first DeSoto Commission in 1936. He published more than 40 books including The Indian Tribes of North America. Kenneth H. Carleton is Tribal Archaeologist for the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians in Philadelphia, Mississippi.

Reviews

Swanton's work on the Choctaw and other southeastern Indian groups was a benchmark in the development of American anthropology and southeastern American Indian studies. - J. Anthony Paredes, editor of Indians of the Southeastern United States in the Late 20th Century