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Book SynopsisA state‑of‑the‑field volume of southern Native American history that focuses on the sixteenth to the twenty‑first centuries.
Trade Review"[
The Native South] reveals how the history of the Native South and Native southerners is a dynamic form of historical inquiry, a testimony to the skill of the contributors and an enduring testimony to the pathbreaking scholarship of Michael Green and Theda Perdue."—G. D. Smithers,
Choice"
The Native South offers a collection of essays in honor of Theda Perdue and the late Michael Green by a panel of their former students, all established or up-and-coming scholars of Native history in their own right. The essays are a fine tribute to their mentors."—Michelle LeMaster,
Ethnohistory"Whether we train future historians, or future teachers, nurses, or pilots, any professor's greatest legacy is her or his students. In
The Native South the editors Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien have assembled the students of Theda Perdue and the late Mike Green to prove this point forcefully and beautifully."—Matthew Jennings,
Journal of American History"Fieldworkers among the Cherokee, Choctaw, and other local groups will find this material useful . . . and ethnographers elsewhere will be encouraged to seek out the discoveries of ethnohistorians to enrich their own work."—
Anthropology Review Database"A welcome and long overdue sampling of one of the fastest growing subfields in American Indian history today."—Bradley Shreve,
Tribal College Journal"In this compiled volume, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien bring together an impressive array of scholarship from the leading voices in southern Indian history."—Rowan Faye Steineker,
Chronicles of Oklahoma"
The Native South concludes with the finest essay in the collection. In his chapter about legacy and the ghosts of the South, James Taylor Carson studies the airport in Franklin, North Carolina. Carson uses insightful metaphors and quotes from figures in Native American studies and history to showcase how the Eastern Band of Cherokees fought to preserve the burial grounds of their ancestors. This is an apt conclusion to a book whose dedication to legacy and ethnohistory as methods of putting Indigenous peoples at the center of their own stories makes it a necessary resource in contemporary Native American studies."—Jay N. Shelat,
American Indian Quarterly“These essays showcase some of the best work in the field. . . . One of the strengths of this volume is the wide scope and diversity in regard to both tribes and time periods.”—Kathryn E. Holland Braund, coeditor of
Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and War of 1812 “Really great essays that expand our understanding not only of Indigenous Southerners but of larger processes of social change and cross-cultural encounters.”—Katherine M. B. Osburn, author of
Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830–1977Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Greg O’Brien
1. An Interview with Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green
Greg O’Brien
2. The Enterprise of War: The Military Economy of the Chickasaw Indians, 1715–1815
David A. Nichols
3. Quieting the Ghosts: How the Choctaws and Chickasaws Stopped Fighting
Greg O’Brien
4. Cherokee and Christian Expressions of Spirituality through First Parents: Eve and Selu
Rowena McClinton
5. Andrew Jackson’s Indian Son: Native Captives and American Empire
Christina Snyder
6. Inevitability and the Southern Opposition to Indian Removal
Tim Alan Garrison
7. An Absolute and Unconditional Pardon: Nineteenth-Century Cherokee Indigenous Justice
Julie L. Reed
8. Race, Kinship, and Belonging among the Florida Seminoles
Mikaëla M. Adams
9. Witnessing the West: Barbara Longknife and the California Gold Rush
Rose Stremlau
10. Cherokee Women and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Izumi Ishii
11. Kinship and Capitalism in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
Malinda Maynor Lowery
12. “Engaged in the Struggle for Liberation as They See It”: Indigenous Southern Women and International Women’s Year
Meg Devlin O’Sullivan
13. Cherokee Ghostings and the Haunted South
James Taylor Carson
Contributors
Index
