The invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763
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The invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763
（Indians of the Southeast）
University of Nebraska Press, c2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-334) and index
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Description
Drawing on archaeological evidence and often-neglected Spanish source material, The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763 explores the political history of the Creek Indians of Georgia and Alabama and the emergence of the Creek Nation during the colonial era in the American Southeast. In part a study of Creek foreign relations, this book examines the creation and application of the "neutrality" policy-defined here as the Coweta Resolution of 1718-for which the Creeks have long been famous, in an era marked by the imperial struggle for the American South.
Also a study of the culture of internal Creek politics, this work shows the persistence of a "traditional" kinship-based political system in which town and clan affiliation remained supremely important. These traditions, coupled with political intrusions by the region's three European powers, promoted the spread of Creek factionalism and mitigated the development of a regional Creek Confederacy. But while traditions endured, the struggle to maintain territorial integrity against Britain also promoted political innovation. In this context the territorially defined Creek Nation emerged as a legal concept in the era of the French and Indian War, as imperial policies of an earlier era gave way to the territorial politics that marked the beginning of a new one.
Table of Contents
ACKNOLEDGMENTS
SERIES EDITORS' INTRODUCTION
INTRODCUTION: THE QUESTION OF THE "CREEK CONFEDERACY"
1. TALL COWETA
2. ENEMIGOS
3. A NEW WORLD ORDER
4. THE CHALLENGE OF TRIPLE-NATION DIPLOMACY
5. OGLETHORPE'S FRIENDS--AND ENEMIES
6. THE TWIN
7. THE INVENTION OF THE CREEK NATION
EPILOGUE: THE LEGACY OF THE IMPERIAL ERA
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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