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Book SynopsisFolklorist and anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson and nine scholars of Yuchi (Euchee) Indian culture and history offer a revisionist and in-depth portrait of Yuchi community and society. By looking at the oral, historical, ethnographic, linguistic, and archaeological record, contributors illuminate Yuchi political circumstances and cultural identity.
Trade Review"The editor and contributors deserve congratulations for sustaining the nearly invisible Yuchi story line. Hope for future information rests in the questions raised by these and other scholars. This publication makes clear that the possibilities are enormous for ethnohistorians, historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, ethnologists, ethnographers, linguists, ethnobotanists, and geographers."—J.H. O'Donnell III ,
Choice"Future scholars of the Yuchi will undoubtedly begin with the conclusions and frameworks of
Yuchi Indian Histories before the Removal Era. The essays in the volume are uniformly accessible and simultaneously insightful yet cautious in their conclusions. Scholars of the early South (native or otherwise) will appreciate their insights."—Andrew K. Frank,
Journal of American History"This volume will stimulate a spate of new archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, and linguistic analyses of the Yuchi."—Cameron B. Wesson,
Plains Anthropologist"This important new collection further illuminates the intricacies of the political climate of the colonial Southeast and highlights the history of an important, understudied group."—Natalie Inman,
Journal of Southern History"
Yuchi Indian Histories before the Removal Era will interest historians of the Native Southeast and anyone with a stake in the Yuchi past, present, and future. That group, as this book shows, should include scholars across multiple disciplines."—Jessica R. Cattelino,
Journal of Anthropological Research "A must read for anyone interest in the Native Southeast."Dixie Ray Haggard, Chronicles of Oklahoma
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Introduction: On Studying Yuchi History
Jason Baird Jackson
1. Deep Time and Genetic Relationships: Yuchi Linguistic History Revisited
Mary S. Linn
2. Enigmatic Origins: On the Yuchi of the Contact Era
John E. Worth
3. Reconsidering Chestowee: The 1713 Raid in Regional Perspective
Brett Riggs
4. Yuchi in the Lower Savannah River Valley: Historical Context and Archaeological Confirmation
Daniel T. Elliott
5. The Yuchi Indians along the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers (17151836): A Synthesis
H. Thomas Foster II
6. "They Look upon the Yuchis as Their Vassals": An Early History of Yuchi-Creek Political Relations
Steven C. Hahn
7. Reconsidering Coalescence: Yuchi and Shawnee Survival Strategies in the Colonial Southeast
Stephen Warren
8. To the Backcountry and Back Again: The Yuchi's Search for Stability in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast
Joshua Piker
9. A Band of Outsiders: Yuchi Identity among the Nineteenth-Century Florida Seminoles
Brent R. Weisman
List of Contributors
Index
