The native south : new histories and enduring legacies / edited by Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien.

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In The Native South, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole-African American kinship systems, Cherokee notions of guilt and innocence in evolving tribal jurisprudence, Indian captives and American empire, and second-wave feminist activism among Cherokee women in the 1970s, The Native South offers a dynamic examination of ethnohistorical methodology and evolving research subjects in southern Native American history.



Theda Perdue and Michael Green, pioneers in the modern historiography of the Native South who developed it into a major field of scholarly inquiry today, speak in interviews with the editors about how that field evolved in the late twentieth century after the foundational work of James Mooney, John Swanton, Angie Debo, and Charles Hudson.



For scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates in this field of American history, this collection offers original essays by Mikaëla Adams, James Taylor Carson, Tim Alan Garrison, Izumi Ishii, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Rowena McClinton, David A. Nichols, Greg O'Brien, Meg Devlin O'Sullivan, Julie L. Reed, Christina Snyder, and Rose Stremlau.

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CHOICE Review

This collection of original scholarly essays focusing on the history of Native people from North America's southeast honors Michael Green and Theda Perdue, two pioneers in the field of Native American history in the southeast. In addition to a fascinating interview with Green and Perdue, the volume includes contributions from authors who have all benefited from the mentorship of Green and Perdue and are in their own right leading scholars in the history of the Native South. The essays range in focus from 18th-century military history to the legal and social history of the removal era and histories of Native migration, temperance, capitalism, and political activism in the 20th century. As a whole, the volume 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. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Graduate students/faculty. --Gregory D. Smithers, Virginia Commonwealth University