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.
