The transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 / essays by Marvin T. Smith ... [et al.] ; edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson.

Author/creator Porter L. Fortune, Jr. History Symposium
Other author Smith, Marvin T.
Other author Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, 1955-
Other author Hudson, Charles M.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoJackson : University Press of Mississippi,
Descriptionxxxix, 369 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Indians of North America--Southern States. --Social conditions. --16th century. --Congresses.
Indians of North America--Southern States. --Social conditions. --17th century. --Congresses.
Indians of North America--Southern States. --Social conditions. --18th century. --Congresses.

Contents Machine generated contents note: Preface vii -- Introduction -- CHARLES HUDSON Xi -- Aboriginal Population Movements in the Postcontact Southeast -- MARVIN T. SMITH 3 -- The Great Southeastern Smallpox Epidemic, 1696-1700: The Region's -- First Major Epidemic? -- PAUL KELTON 21 -- Spanish Missions and the Persistence of Chiefly Power -- JOHN E. WORTH 39 -- Trouble Coming Southward: Emanations through and from Virginia, -- 1607-1675 -- HELEN C. ROUNTREE 65 -- The Mother of Necessity: Carolina, the Creek Indians, and the Making of -- a New Order in the American Southeast, 1670-1763 -- STEVEN C. HAHN 79 -- The Ohio Valley, 1550-1750: Patterns of Sociopolitical Coalescence and -- Dispersal -- PENELOPE B. DROOKER 115 -- The Cultural Landscape of the North Carolina Piedmont at Contact -- R. P. STEPHEN DAVIS, JR. 135 -- Reconstructing the Coalescence of Cherokee Communities in Southern -- Appalachia -- CHRISTOPHER B. RODNING 155 -- From Prehistory through Protohistory to Ethnohistory in and near the -- Northern Lower Mississippi Valley -- MARVIN D. JETER 177 -- Colonial Period Transformations in the Mississippi Valley: Dis- -- integration, Alliance, Confederation, Playoff -- PATRICIA GALLOWAY 225 -- Social Changes among the Caddo Indians in the Sixteenth and -- Seventeenth Centuries -- TIMOTHY K. PERTTULA 249 -- Notes 271 -- Bibliography 323 -- Contributors 361 -- Index 363.
General note"This volume contains the proceedings of the 1998 Porter L. Fortune, Jr., History Symposium, at the University of Mississippi"--Pref.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 323-359) and index.
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