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The Native South

New Histories and Enduring Legacies

Tim Alan Garrison

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 07/2017
Pages: 318
Subject: Social Science
eBook ISBN: 9781496201423

DESCRIPTION

In The Native South, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O'Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole–African American kinship systems, Cherokee notions of guilt and innocence in evolving tribal jurisprudence, Indian captives and American empire, and second-wave feminist activism among Cherokee women in the 1970s, The Native South offers a dynamic examination of ethnohistorical methodology and evolving research subjects in southern Native American history.   Theda Perdue and Michael Green, pioneers in the modern historiography of the Native South who developed it into a major field of scholarly inquiry today, speak in interviews with the editors about how that field evolved in the late twentieth century after the foundational work of James Mooney, John Swanton, Angie Debo, and Charles Hudson. For scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates in this field of American history, this collection offers original essays by Mikaëla Adams, James Taylor Carson, Tim Alan Garrison, Izumi Ishii, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Rowena McClinton, David A. Nichols, Greg O'Brien, Meg Devlin O'Sullivan, Julie L. Reed, Christina Snyder, and Rose Stremlau.  

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Tim Alan Garrison is a professor and chair of the Department of History at Portland State University. He is the editor of "Our Cause Will Ultimately Triumph": Profiles in American Indian Sovereignty. Greg O'Brien is an associate professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the editor of Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths and the executive editor of the journal Native South.  

REVIEWS

"These essays showcase some of the best work in the field. . . . One of the strengths of this volume is the wide scope and diversity in regard to both tribes and time periods."—Kathryn E. Holland Braund, coeditor of Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and War of 1812  

"Really great essays that expand our understanding not only of Indigenous Southerners but of larger processes of social change and cross-cultural encounters."—Katherine M. B. Osburn, author of Choctaw Resurgence in Mississippi: Race, Class, and Nation Building in the Jim Crow South, 1830–1977

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