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Book SynopsisArchaeologists of South Carolina and Florida and historians of the Native South, Spanish Florida, and British Carolina address elusive questions about Yamasee identity, political and social networks, and the fate of the Yamasees after the Yamasee War.
Trade Review"
The Yamasee Indians is a welcome addition to scholarship on southeastern Indigenous peoples. It will also be useful for scholars who focus on other regions and time periods. . . . In including analysis of Yamasee individuals, families, and towns, the volume irrefutably proves that Yamasees’ experiences before, during, and after the Yamasee War were far from monolithic."—Garrett Wright,
Native American and Indigenous Studies"With deep readings of archaeological and historical traces, these essays fit exceptionally well together to lend a comprehensive view of Yamasee history and culture in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries."—Jonathan Hancock,
Florida Historical Quarterly"The volume is one that experts on Native American and early American history, graduate and undergraduate students, and nonspecialists should find useful, engaging, and interesting."—D. Andrew Johnson,
Journal of Southern History“This impressive anthology tells the remarkable story of the Yamasee Indians, and in the telling, reveals the opportunities, upheavals, and strategies for survival of Native communities living on the edge of an expanding European empire.”—Robbie Ethridge, professor of anthropology at the University of Mississippi and author of
From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540–1715“A much-needed, remarkably thorough, and impressively interdisciplinary investigation of a critically important but all-too-often-misunderstood Native nation. Anyone with an interest in the early American South and its people should read this book.”—Joshua Piker, editor of the
William and Mary Quarterly, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and professor of history at the College of William & Mary
“This anthology makes a fine addition to the extant scholarship on the Yamasee people, offers a balanced juxtaposition of disciplinary and thematic approaches to the subject, and builds on the scholarship that has come before while casting an eye toward what might be some promising areas for future study. The chapters all interconnect in ways that bespeak a kind of collective and collaborative approach to the topic at hand.”—James Taylor Carson, professor and head of the School of Humanities, Languages, and Social Science at Griffith University in Brisbane and author of
Thee Columbian Covenant: Race and the Writing of American HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations
List of Tables
Foreword, by Alan Gallay
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Recovering Yamasee History
Denise I. Bossy
Part 1. Yamasee Identity 1. Living at Liberty: The Ungovernable Yamasees of Spanish Florida
Amy Turner Bushnell
2. Yamasee Migrations into the Mocama and Timucua Provinces of Florida, 1667–1683: An Archaeological Perspective
Keith Ashley
3. Yamasee Material Culture and Identity: Altamaha/San Marcos Ceramics in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Yamasee Indian Settlements, Georgia and South Carolina
Eric C. Poplin and Jon Bernard Marcoux
4. Cultural Continuity and Change: Archaeological Research at Yamasee Primary Towns in South Carolina
Alexander Y. Sweeney
Part 2. Yamasee Networks 5. Spiritual Diplomacy: Reinterpreting the Yamasee Prince’s Eighteenth-Century Voyage to England
Denise I. Bossy
6. Yamasee-African Ties in Carolina and Florida
Jane Landers
7. The Long Yamasee War: Reflections on Yamasee Conflict in the Eighteenth Century
Steven C. Hahn
Part 3. Surviving the Yamasee War 8. The Persistence of Yamasee Power and Identity at the Town of San Antonio de Pocotalaca, 1716–1752
Amanda Hall
9. Refuge among the Spanish: Yamasee Community Coalescence in St. Augustine after 1715
Andrea P. White
10. Chief Francisco Jospogue: Reconstructing the Paths of a Guale-Yamasee Indian Lineage through Spanish Records
Susan Richbourg Parker
11. The Yamasee in West Florida
John E. Worth
List of Contributors
Index
