The Second Creek War : interethnic conflict and collusion on a collapsing frontier
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The Second Creek War : interethnic conflict and collusion on a collapsing frontier
（Indians of the Southeast）
University of Nebraska Press, c2010
- : cloth
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Bibliography: p. 479-490
Includes index
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Description
Historians have traditionally viewed the Creek War of 1836 as a minor police action centered on rounding up the Creek Indians for removal to Indian Territory. Using extensive archival research, John T. Ellisor demonstrates that in fact the Second Creek War was neither brief nor small. Indeed, armed conflict continued long after peace was declared and the majority of Creeks had been sent west.
Ellisor's study also broadly illuminates southern society just before the Indian removals, a time when many blacks, whites, and Natives lived in close proximity in the Old Southwest. In the Creek country, also called New Alabama, these ethnic groups began to develop a pluralistic society. When the 1830s cotton boom placed a premium on Creek land, however, dispossession of the Natives became an economic priority. Dispossessed and impoverished, some Creeks rose in armed revolt both to resist removal west and to drive the oppressors from their ancient homeland.
Yet the resulting Second Creek War that raged over three states was fueled both by Native determination and by economic competition and was intensified not least by the massive government-sponsored land grab that constituted Indian removal. Because these circumstances also created fissures throughout southern society, both whites and blacks found it in their best interests to help the Creek insurgents. This first book-length examination of the Second Creek War shows how interethnic collusion and conflict characterized southern society during the 1830s.
Table of Contents
List of Maps
Introduction: The Second Creek War?
1. Creek Politics and Confinement in New Alabama
2. The Cusseta Treaty of 1832
3. Commodifying the Creek Domain
4. Resistance
5. Rebellion
6. The Federal Response
7. Flight through Southern Georgia
8. Recriminations
9. The War Revives in New Alabama
10. Seeking Refuge in West Florida
Epilogue: The Legacy of the Second Creek War
Notes
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Index
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