Okfuskee
Subtitle: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: August 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780674013353
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; History of specific racial & ethnic groups; Native American; Great Britain; Colonies; United States - Colonial Period; History - General History; History - U.S; History: American; USA; History; United States - State & Local - South; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); America; Oakfuskee; 18th century; Alabama; Creek Indians; Government relations
Description: "Okfuskee is a community-centered Indian history with an explicitly comparativist agenda. Joshua Piker uses the history of Okfuskee, an eighteenth-century Creek town, to reframe standard narratives of both Native and American experiences." "This detailed perspective on local life in a Native society allows us to truly understand both the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses. At the same time, by comparing the Okfuskees' experiences to those of their contemporaries in colonial British America, the book provides a nuanced discussion of the ways in which Native and Euro-American histories intersected with, and diverged from, each other." "Piker examines the diplomatic ties that developed between the Okfuskees and their British neighbors; the economic implications of the Okfuskees' shifting world view; the integration of British traders into the town; and the shifting gender and generational relationships in the community. By both providing an in-depth investigation of a colonial-era Indian town in Indian country and placing the Okfuskees within the processes central to early American history, Piker offers a Native history with important implications for American history."--BOOK JACKET.