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Native American Log Cabins in the Southeast
About this book
Southeastern Native American forms of domestic architecture underwent multiple transitions between the mid-eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. In Native American Log Cabins in the Southeast, Gregory A. Waselkov and ten colleagues track the origins of Native American cabins, structures that incorporated a range of features borrowed from indigenous post-in ground building traditions, Euroamerican horizontal notched-log construction, and elements introduced by Africans and African Americans. Grounded in archaeological investigation, their essays illuminate the distinctive cabin forms developed by various southeastern Native groups, including the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Catawba peoples.
In a rapidly changing social, economic, and political landscape at the frontiers of an expansionist United States, the log cabin, a northern European house form, proved equally adaptable to the needs of settlers, slaves, and Native peoples. Each found ways to make log cabins their own. Beneath these deceptively simple hewn facades, indigenous principles of correctness guided southeastern Indians’ uses of interior cabin space, creations of raised clay hearths, and maintenance of pits that gave occupants access to the regenerative properties of the Beneath World. The chapters in this volume make important contributions toward a better understanding of houses and households in the Native Southeast by marshalling new data, methods, and theory to address an important but understudied phenomenon.
In a rapidly changing social, economic, and political landscape at the frontiers of an expansionist United States, the log cabin, a northern European house form, proved equally adaptable to the needs of settlers, slaves, and Native peoples. Each found ways to make log cabins their own. Beneath these deceptively simple hewn facades, indigenous principles of correctness guided southeastern Indians’ uses of interior cabin space, creations of raised clay hearths, and maintenance of pits that gave occupants access to the regenerative properties of the Beneath World. The chapters in this volume make important contributions toward a better understanding of houses and households in the Native Southeast by marshalling new data, methods, and theory to address an important but understudied phenomenon.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- ONE. An Introduction to Southeastern Native North American Log Architecture, Gregory A. Waselkov
- TWO. Persistence and Change in Historic Upper Creek Architecture, Craig T. Sheldon Jr.
- THREE. Redstick Creek Log Cabins at the Holy Ground, Gregory A. Waselkov and Craig T. Sheldon Jr.
- FOUR. Adoption and Use of Log Cabins in the Catawba Nation, c.1759–1820, David J. Cranford, R. P. Stephen Davis Jr., Theresa McReynolds Shebalin, and Brett H. Riggs
- FIVE. Cherokee Cabins at Hickory Log, Paul Webb
- SIX. Cherokee Housing in the North Carolina Mountains during the Removal Era, Brett H. Riggs and Thomas N. Belt
- SEVEN. European Influences on Choctaw Architecture, Keith J. Little and Hunter B. Johnson
- EIGHT. Influences of Enslaved and Free Africans on Southeastern Indian Log Cabins, Ashley A. Dumas
- NINE. New Insights from the Anthropological Archaeology of Native-Built Log Cabins in the Southeast, Benjamin A. Steere
- References Cited
- Contributors
- Index