Mapping the Mississippian shatter zone the colonial Indian slave trade and regional instability in the American South

Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, 1955- (Added Author). Shuck-Hall, Sheri Marie, 1972- (Added Author).

Summary: During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and region of instability and regrouping constituted a "shatter zone."

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ISBN: 9780803226142 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 0803226144 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (526 p.) : ill., maps.
Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [425]-492) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction : mapping the Mississippian shatter zone / Robbie Ethridge -- Events as seen from the north : the Iroquois and colonial slavery / William A. Fox -- From refugees to slave traders : the transformation of the Westo Indians / Maureen Meyers -- "Caryinge awaye their corne and children" : the effects of Westo slave raids on the indians of the lower south / Eric E. Bowne -- Catawba coalescence and the shattering of the Carolina piedmont, 1540-1675 / Robin A. Beck, Jr -- "Indians refusing to carry burdens" : understanding the success of Catawba political, military, and settlement strategies in colonial Carolina / Mary Elizabeth Fitts, Charles L. Heath -- "The greatest travelers in America" : Shawnee survival in the shatter zone / Stephen Warren, Randolph Noe -- Tracing the origins of the early creeks, 1050-1700 CE / Ned J. Jenkins -- Alabama and Coushatta diaspora and coalescence in the Mississippian shatter zone / Sheri M. Shuck-Hall -- Violence in a shattered world / Matthew H. Jennings -- Razing Florida : the Indian slave trade and the devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-1715 / John E. Worth -- Shattered and infected : epidemics and the origins of the Yamasee war, 1696-1715 / Paul Kelton -- Choctaws at the border of the shatter zone : spheres of exchange and spheres of social value / Patricia Galloway -- Shatter zone shock waves along the lower Mississippi / Marvin D. Jeter -- Picking up the pieces : Natchez coalescence in the shatter zone / George Edward Milne.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.