The Native South

New Histories and Enduring Legacies

Tim Alan Garrison, Greg O'Brien

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780803296909
• eBook ISBN:
  9781496201423
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Native American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. An Interview with Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green
• 2. The Enterprise of War
• 3. Quieting the Ghosts
• 4. Cherokee and Christian Expressions of Spirituality through First Parents
• 5. Andrew Jackson’s Indian Son
• 6. Inevitability and the Southern Opposition to Indian Removal
• 7. An Absolute and Unconditional Pardon
• 8. Race, Kinship, and Belonging among the Florida Seminoles
• 9. Witnessing the West
• 10. Cherokee Women and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
• 11. Kinship and Capitalism in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations
• 12. “Engaged in the Struggle for Liberation as They See It”
• 13. Cherokee Ghostings and the Haunted South
• Contributors
• Index
• About Tim Alan Garrison
• About Greg O’Brien