Yuchi ceremonial life
Subtitle: performance, meaning, and tradition in a contemporary American Indian community
By: Jason Baird Jackson.
Series: Studies in the anthropology of North American Indians
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: Yuchi Indians -- Rites and ceremonies; Yuchi dance; Speeches, addresses, etc., Yuchi
Description: The Yuchis are one of the least known yet most distinctive of the Native groups in the American southeast. Located in late prehistoric times in eastern Tennessee, they played an important historical role at various times during the last five centuries and in many ways served as a bridge between their southeastern neighbors and Native communities in the northeast. First noted by the de Soto expedition in the sixteenth century, the Yuchis moved several times and made many alliances over the next few centuries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-330) and index.