Claudio Saunt
Biographic Data
| ID | 165026 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claudio Saunt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claudio |
| FAMILY NAME | Saunt |
| SIGNATURE | SAUNT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Richard B. Russell Professor in American History at the University of Georgia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Financing Dispossession: Stocks, Bonds, and the Deportation of Native Peoples in the Antebellum United States
The cotton grown by Mississippi slaves, insured by New York and Boston financiers, and spun by Manchester wage laborers germinated in soil that had belonged, only a few months or years earlier, to Native Americans.For a brief five decades, the U.S. South dominated global cotton production, a result of the transformation of the region from indigenous farms to slave labor camps.Scholars have recently traced the network of financial capital that yok…
The Age of Imperial Expansion, 1763–1821
Between 1763 and 1821, few Native peoples in North America remained untouched by the twin forces of imperial expansion and colonial population growth. Communities in once-remote California and Alaska struggled to adjust to the incursion of missionaries, traders, and soldiers into their lands. Along the Atlantic seaboard, Indians fought to avoid being swallowed up altogether by the United States. Depending on the regional context, indigenous exper…
Mapping Space, Power, and Social Life
The spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities invites experimentation with new modes of historical storytelling. Those modes-interactive, participatory, and ever evolving-may redefine our vision of scholarship by creating innovative ways to distribute and create historical knowledge. If the ultimate goal of many historians is to change the way individuals think about the past, then participatory sites may make truly significant contribution…
The Indians' Old World
My Medicine Is Punishment: A Case of Torture in Early California, 1775-1776
In November 1775, Kumeyaay Indians attacked and destroyed Mission San Diego, at the foot of Alta California. In the wake of that event, Spanish officials interrogated and tortured Indians to gather intelligence. While historians have recounted the uprising's origins and aftermath, they have not recognized that their accounts ultimately rest on coerced testimony. This article suggests that, even after torture had fallen out of favor in the courts …
New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier
Black, white, and Indian race and the unmaking of an American family: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
This book explores the history of a Native American family using a rich collection of sources, including G. W. Grayson's never-before studied forty-four volume diary. At the heart of the narrative is a fact suppressed to this day by some Graysons: one branch of the family is of African descent. Focusing on five generations from 1780 to 1920, this book reveals the terrible compromises that Indians had to make to survive in the shadow of the expand…
The Native South: An Account of Recent Historiography
The Native SouthAn Account of Recent Historiography Claudio Saunt (bio) Over the past decade, the historiography of the Native South has seemingly grown as fast as the cul-de-sacs enveloping Charlotte, Atlanta, Orlando, and other Southern cities. Unlike the housing bubble, however, the boom in Southern Indian historiography is unlikely to slow anytime soon. Much of the recent work addresses basic questions about Indians' political evolution, econ…
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices-to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship-were often necessarily guided by the harsh economic realities imposed by the country's racial hierarchy. Few families in American history embody this struggle to s…
The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict
Telling Stories: The Political Uses of Myth and History in the Cherokee and Creek Nations
Journal Article Telling Stories: The Political Uses of Myth and History in the Cherokee and Creek Nations Get access Claudio Saunt Claudio Saunt associate professor of history and associate director of the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 3, December 2006, Pages 673–697, https://doi.org/10.2307/44…
Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South
Research Article| April 01 2006 Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South Claudio Saunt; Claudio Saunt University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Barbara Krauthamer; Barbara Krauthamer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tiya Miles; Tiya Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Celia E. Naylor; Celia E. Naylor Search for other works by this author on: This …
Northern Indians and Negro Slaves: Wash and the Politics of Reconstruction
In the era of Reconstruction, the Creek Nation pursued a policy of states' rights in order to defend its sovereignty against the federal government. The Creeks' conflation of states' rights and tribal sovereignty poisoned relations with ex-slaves, who were increasingly marginalized in Indian Territory.
Divided by Blood: The Graysons and the End of the Creek Nation
The Dawes Act and allotment brought an end to the Creek Nation. Although both Creeks and black Indians struggled to hold onto their land, those with lighter skin were relatively better off. The oil boom in Tulsa proved particularly harmful to Indians.
Separate Paths: Katy and William in the Antebellum Creek Nation
In the Antebellum era, slaveholders dominated the Creek government. Under their guidance, the Creek Nation passed laws punishing abolitionists, defending slavery, and discriminating against black Indians.
A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
The Paradox of Freedom: Tribal Sovereignty and Emancipation during the Reconstruction of Indian Territory
IN 1937 NINETY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KIZIAH LOVE OF COLBERT, OKLAHOMA, told Jessie Ervin, a field-worker from the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, about her years as a slave. can recollect things that happened way back better than I can things that happen now, said the blind and bedridden Love. With particular emotion she recalled her emancipation more than seventy years earlier. Ervin recorded her words in stylized English…
New Anthropological Perspectives on Southeastern Indians
Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. Margaret Bender. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 187 pp.Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identity. Lisa J. Lefler and Frederic W. Gleach. eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. 151 pp.Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Circe Sturm. Berkeley: University of California …
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
The Bringing of Wonder: Trade and the Indians of the Southeast, 1700-1783
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Journal Article A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816. By Claudio Saunt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 298 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-521-66043-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-66943-X.) Get access Kathryn Holland Braund Kathryn Holland Braund Dadeville, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Is…
Indian Policy in the Age of Jefferson
Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 394. Documents, illustrations, maps. $29.95) Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State. By Laurence M. Hauptman. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 304. Illustrations, maps, tables. $34.95.) Seeds of Empire: The Revolutionary Co…
Taking Account of Property: Stratification among the Creek Indians in the Early Nineteenth Century
J N late June i814, Andrew Jackson, brigadier general in the United States army and future president, set out from Nashville, Tennessee, for Fort Jackson, a post recently built at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers. The region would soon become central Alabama, and the state's capital city Montgomery would be established just south of the fort, but in i814, the land belonged to the Creek, or Muskogee, Indians. Their hunting grounds…
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
Black, white, and Indian race and the unmaking of an American family: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
This book explores the history of a Native American family using a rich collection of sources, including G. W. Grayson's never-before studied forty-four volume diary. At the heart of the narrative is a fact suppressed to this day by some Graysons: one branch of the family is of African descent. Focusing on five generations from 1780 to 1920, this book reveals the terrible compromises that Indians had to make to survive in the shadow of the expand…
Financing Dispossession: Stocks, Bonds, and the Deportation of Native Peoples in the Antebellum United States
The cotton grown by Mississippi slaves, insured by New York and Boston financiers, and spun by Manchester wage laborers germinated in soil that had belonged, only a few months or years earlier, to Native Americans.For a brief five decades, the U.S. South dominated global cotton production, a result of the transformation of the region from indigenous farms to slave labor camps.Scholars have recently traced the network of financial capital that yok…
The Indians' Old World
Mapping Space, Power, and Social Life
The spatial and cartographic turn in the humanities invites experimentation with new modes of historical storytelling. Those modes-interactive, participatory, and ever evolving-may redefine our vision of scholarship by creating innovative ways to distribute and create historical knowledge. If the ultimate goal of many historians is to change the way individuals think about the past, then participatory sites may make truly significant contribution…
Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South
Research Article| April 01 2006 Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South Claudio Saunt; Claudio Saunt University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Barbara Krauthamer; Barbara Krauthamer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tiya Miles; Tiya Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Celia E. Naylor; Celia E. Naylor Search for other works by this author on: This …
The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict
Telling Stories: The Political Uses of Myth and History in the Cherokee and Creek Nations
Journal Article Telling Stories: The Political Uses of Myth and History in the Cherokee and Creek Nations Get access Claudio Saunt Claudio Saunt associate professor of history and associate director of the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 3, December 2006, Pages 673–697, https://doi.org/10.2307/44…
A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
The Paradox of Freedom: Tribal Sovereignty and Emancipation during the Reconstruction of Indian Territory
IN 1937 NINETY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KIZIAH LOVE OF COLBERT, OKLAHOMA, told Jessie Ervin, a field-worker from the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, about her years as a slave. can recollect things that happened way back better than I can things that happen now, said the blind and bedridden Love. With particular emotion she recalled her emancipation more than seventy years earlier. Ervin recorded her words in stylized English…
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Choctaw Genesis, 1500-1700
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816
The story told here is a critical yet unknown chapter in the creation of the American Republic. Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. By 1800, some Creeks, whose most valuable belongings had once been deerskins, owned hundreds of African-American slaves and thousands of cattle. Their leaders, who for…
Indian Policy in the Age of Jefferson
Jefferson and the Indians: The Tragic Fate of the First Americans. By Anthony F. C. Wallace. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 394. Documents, illustrations, maps. $29.95) Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State. By Laurence M. Hauptman. (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1998. Pp. xix, 304. Illustrations, maps, tables. $34.95.) Seeds of Empire: The Revolutionary Co…
Taking Account of Property: Stratification among the Creek Indians in the Early Nineteenth Century
J N late June i814, Andrew Jackson, brigadier general in the United States army and future president, set out from Nashville, Tennessee, for Fort Jackson, a post recently built at the confluence of the Coosa and Tallapoosa rivers. The region would soon become central Alabama, and the state's capital city Montgomery would be established just south of the fort, but in i814, the land belonged to the Creek, or Muskogee, Indians. Their hunting grounds…
Searching for the Bright Path: The Mississippi Choctaws from Prehistory to Removal
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Journal Article A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816 Get access A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816. By Saunt Claudio. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 298 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $49.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.) Joshua Piker Joshua Piker University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on…
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
The Bringing of Wonder: Trade and the Indians of the Southeast, 1700-1783
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Journal Article A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733–1816. By Claudio Saunt. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv, 298 pp. Cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-521-66043-2. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0-521-66943-X.) Get access Kathryn Holland Braund Kathryn Holland Braund Dadeville, Alabama Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Is…
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
New Anthropological Perspectives on Southeastern Indians
Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life. Margaret Bender. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. 187 pp.Southern Indians and Anthropologists: Culture, Politics, and Identity. Lisa J. Lefler and Frederic W. Gleach. eds. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2002. 151 pp.Blood Politics: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Circe Sturm. Berkeley: University of California …
The Paradox of Freedom: Tribal Sovereignty and Emancipation during the Reconstruction of Indian Territory
IN 1937 NINETY-THREE-YEAR-OLD KIZIAH LOVE OF COLBERT, OKLAHOMA, told Jessie Ervin, a field-worker from the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration, about her years as a slave. can recollect things that happened way back better than I can things that happen now, said the blind and bedridden Love. With particular emotion she recalled her emancipation more than seventy years earlier. Ervin recorded her words in stylized English…
Northern Indians and Negro Slaves: Wash and the Politics of Reconstruction
In the era of Reconstruction, the Creek Nation pursued a policy of states' rights in order to defend its sovereignty against the federal government. The Creeks' conflation of states' rights and tribal sovereignty poisoned relations with ex-slaves, who were increasingly marginalized in Indian Territory.
Divided by Blood: The Graysons and the End of the Creek Nation
The Dawes Act and allotment brought an end to the Creek Nation. Although both Creeks and black Indians struggled to hold onto their land, those with lighter skin were relatively better off. The oil boom in Tulsa proved particularly harmful to Indians.
Separate Paths: Katy and William in the Antebellum Creek Nation
In the Antebellum era, slaveholders dominated the Creek government. Under their guidance, the Creek Nation passed laws punishing abolitionists, defending slavery, and discriminating against black Indians.
A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
The Seminole Wars: America's Longest Indian Conflict
Telling Stories: The Political Uses of Myth and History in the Cherokee and Creek Nations
Journal Article Telling Stories: The Political Uses of Myth and History in the Cherokee and Creek Nations Get access Claudio Saunt Claudio Saunt associate professor of history and associate director of the Institute of Native American Studies at the University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 93, Issue 3, December 2006, Pages 673–697, https://doi.org/10.2307/44…
Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South
Research Article| April 01 2006 Rethinking Race and Culture in the Early South Claudio Saunt; Claudio Saunt University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Barbara Krauthamer; Barbara Krauthamer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Tiya Miles; Tiya Miles Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Celia E. Naylor; Celia E. Naylor Search for other works by this author on: This …
Black, white, and Indian race and the unmaking of an American family: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
This book explores the history of a Native American family using a rich collection of sources, including G. W. Grayson's never-before studied forty-four volume diary. At the heart of the narrative is a fact suppressed to this day by some Graysons: one branch of the family is of African descent. Focusing on five generations from 1780 to 1920, this book reveals the terrible compromises that Indians had to make to survive in the shadow of the expand…
The Native South: An Account of Recent Historiography
The Native SouthAn Account of Recent Historiography Claudio Saunt (bio) Over the past decade, the historiography of the Native South has seemingly grown as fast as the cul-de-sacs enveloping Charlotte, Atlanta, Orlando, and other Southern cities. Unlike the housing bubble, however, the boom in Southern Indian historiography is unlikely to slow anytime soon. Much of the recent work addresses basic questions about Indians' political evolution, econ…
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices-to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship-were often necessarily guided by the harsh economic realities imposed by the country's racial hierarchy. Few families in American history embody this struggle to s…
New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
Separate Peoples, One Land: The Minds of Cherokees, Blacks, and Whites on the Tennessee Frontier
My Medicine Is Punishment: A Case of Torture in Early California, 1775-1776
In November 1775, Kumeyaay Indians attacked and destroyed Mission San Diego, at the foot of Alta California. In the wake of that event, Spanish officials interrogated and tortured Indians to gather intelligence. While historians have recounted the uprising's origins and aftermath, they have not recognized that their accounts ultimately rest on coerced testimony. This article suggests that, even after torture had fallen out of favor in the courts …
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