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Book SynopsisTells the story of the Choctaws which is told through the lives of two remarkable leaders, Taboca and Franchimastabe, during a period of revolutionary change, 1750-1830.
Trade Review"O'Brien's work is solid and the research impeccable."-The Chronicles of Oklahoma The Chronicles of Oklahoma "A significant step forward, one of a small number of recent southeastern Indian histories that begin by taking native cultures seriously and viewing Choctaw beliefs and understandings of the world as crucial to the ways in which native people acted and reacted as historical actors... O'Brien is to be commended for attempting this difficult and necessary work."-Jason Baird Jackson, The Alabama Review -- Jason Baird Jackson The Alabama Review "Greg O'Brian carefully contextualizes the internal dynamics of kinship and spiritual authority with the external forces of European settler encroachment and trade to analyze how the Choctaw accommodated, yet maintained, their traditional culture in an era of revolutionary change... This book is an important starting point for reassessing the evolution of the Choctaw and their neighbors in the second half of the eighteenth century."-Allan Gallay, The American Historical Review -- Allan Gallay The American Historical Review
