Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 399 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
First edition, third printing
Series Statement:
The _Civilization of the American Indian Series 22
Keywords:
Nordamerika Indianer, Nordamerika
;
Creek
;
Geschichte, politische
;
Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße
;
Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
Abstract:
Two hundred years ago, when the activities of the white man in North America were dominated by clashing imperial ambitions and colonial rivalry, the great Creek Confederacy rested in savage contentment under the reign of native law. No one in their whole world could do the Creeks harm, and they welcomed the slight white man who came with gifts and promises to enjoy the hospitality of their invincible towns. Within one hundred years the great Confederacy had been broken, dissembled, and removed west of the Misssissippi.In The Road to Disappearance, Angie Debo tells for the first time the full Creek story from its vague anthropological beginnings to the loss by the tribe of independent political identity, when during the first decade of this century the lands of the Five Civilized Tribes were divided into severalty ownership. Her book is an absorbing narrative of a minority people, clinging against all odds to native custom, language, and institution. It is the chronicle of the internal life of the tribeandmdash;the structure of Creek societyandmdash;with its folkways, religious beliefs, politics, wars, privations, and persecutions. Miss Debo's research has divulged many new sources of information, and her history of the Creeks since the Civil War is a special contribution because that period has been largely neglected by the historians of the American Indian. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- In savage power -- The marking of a protectorate -- The destruction of a nation -- The conquest of a frontier -- The white man's war -- Building again -- Further complications -- The Green Peach War -- The Creek people at peace -- Crumbling defenses -- The end of the tribe -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [382]-388
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