Joshua Piker
Biographic Data
| ID | 353271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Piker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Piker |
| SIGNATURE | PIKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6243-3085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Measuring Vast Early America: Where and When, but Also Who and How
In this editor's note, Joshua Piker invites readers to consider how we might measure the scope of Vast Early America using data from his time as editor of the William and Mary Quarterly
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
Journal Article The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies Get access David La Vere. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 262 pp. $30.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 557–558, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau372 Published: 01 September 2014
The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America
Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the conde…
Lying Together: The Imperial Implications of Cross‐Cultural Untruths
For to imagine or entertain the most distant Thoughts that a whole Nation of People should enter into a Confederacy to tell a Falsehood, and that it should be attested upon a solemn Oath of twenty-seven white Men who were all in the Nation at the same Time, and that None of them should make the least Objection as to the Truth thereof is a Supposition as weak as rediculous, and carries its own Confutation along with it
The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier
Book Review| October 01 2011 The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier. By Ellisor, John T.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. vi + 497 pp., introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth.) Joshua Piker Joshua Piker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 738–73…
Of Ethnohistory, Archaeology, and Playing with Fire: A Comment on Foster and Cohen 2007
This Comment interrogates claims made by Foster and Cohen (2007) regarding eighteenth-century Creek Indian hunting strategies. It argues that Foster and Cohen's attempts to link the archaeological and ethnohistorical record are flawed because of their misreading of the latter. The 'Comment' demonstrates that Creeks did not-contra Foster and Cohen (2007)-conduct large-scale hunts near their communities or frequently rely on fire-drives. Thus, poll…
A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Book Review| October 01 2007 Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. $23.95 paper.) Joshua Piker Joshua Piker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 761–762. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-031 Cite Icon…
Indians and Race in Early America: A Review Essay
This article explores the contours of a newly vibrant literature on American Indians and race in early America by reviewing the conclusions offered in ten books published between 2001 and 2004. It focuses on three issues: the Euro‐American move toward racializing Indians; the Native Americans’ own perspectives on difference and race; and the degree to which the beliefs of Native and Euro‐Americans emerged as a consequence of cross‐cultural conver…
Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America
Journal Article Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America Get access Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. By Piker Joshua. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi + 270 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00.) Marvin T. Smith Marvin T. Smith Valdosta State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 2005, Pages 510–51…
Okfuskee
This perspective on life in a Native society offers understanding of the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses. By comparing the experiences of the Okfuskee and their British American contemporaries, the book relates how Native and Euro-American histories intersected with, and diverged from, each other
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
Choctaws and Power 2. The Multiethnic Confederacy 3. Warriors, Warfare, and Male Power 4. Power Derived from the Outside World 5. Trading for Power 6. Otherworldly Power and Power in Transition Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Colonists and Creeks: Rethinking the Pre-Revolutionary Southern Backcountry
Native American History: Stories and Theories
Anyone who pays attention early Native American history will be familiar with two facts. First, the subfield is beset by an unusually recalcitrant documentary record. Much of what we would like know went unrecorded, and much of what we do know is suspect. Second, the subfield is beset by an unusually explosive political context. Most mainstream scholars-myself included-are not of native descent, and many descendants of the we write about question…
"White & Clean" & Contested: Creek Towns and Trading Paths in the Aftermath of the Seven Years' War
In the last generation, scholars intent on removing "tribe"from their narratives of colonial-era Native American history have repeatedly invoked "community" in its place. This development notwithstanding, community-centered projects are rare; Indian towns now appear in the literature, but not as the driving force behind the action being chronicled. This article focuses on the debate among Upper Creek towns as they struggled to define the nature o…
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…
Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America
Journal Article Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America Get access Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. By Piker Joshua. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi + 270 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00.) Marvin T. Smith Marvin T. Smith Valdosta State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 2005, Pages 510–51…
Lying Together: The Imperial Implications of Cross‐Cultural Untruths
For to imagine or entertain the most distant Thoughts that a whole Nation of People should enter into a Confederacy to tell a Falsehood, and that it should be attested upon a solemn Oath of twenty-seven white Men who were all in the Nation at the same Time, and that None of them should make the least Objection as to the Truth thereof is a Supposition as weak as rediculous, and carries its own Confutation along with it
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
Choctaws and Power 2. The Multiethnic Confederacy 3. Warriors, Warfare, and Male Power 4. Power Derived from the Outside World 5. Trading for Power 6. Otherworldly Power and Power in Transition Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Colonists and Creeks: Rethinking the Pre-Revolutionary Southern Backcountry
"White & Clean" & Contested: Creek Towns and Trading Paths in the Aftermath of the Seven Years' War
In the last generation, scholars intent on removing "tribe"from their narratives of colonial-era Native American history have repeatedly invoked "community" in its place. This development notwithstanding, community-centered projects are rare; Indian towns now appear in the literature, but not as the driving force behind the action being chronicled. This article focuses on the debate among Upper Creek towns as they struggled to define the nature o…
The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America
Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the conde…
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
Journal Article The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies Get access David La Vere. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 262 pp. $30.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 557–558, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau372 Published: 01 September 2014
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Book Review| October 01 2007 Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. $23.95 paper.) Joshua Piker Joshua Piker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 761–762. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-031 Cite Icon…
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…
Native American History: Stories and Theories
Anyone who pays attention early Native American history will be familiar with two facts. First, the subfield is beset by an unusually recalcitrant documentary record. Much of what we would like know went unrecorded, and much of what we do know is suspect. Second, the subfield is beset by an unusually explosive political context. Most mainstream scholars-myself included-are not of native descent, and many descendants of the we write about question…
"White & Clean" & Contested: Creek Towns and Trading Paths in the Aftermath of the Seven Years' War
In the last generation, scholars intent on removing "tribe"from their narratives of colonial-era Native American history have repeatedly invoked "community" in its place. This development notwithstanding, community-centered projects are rare; Indian towns now appear in the literature, but not as the driving force behind the action being chronicled. This article focuses on the debate among Upper Creek towns as they struggled to define the nature o…
Okfuskee
This perspective on life in a Native society offers understanding of the pervasiveness of colonialism's influence and the inventiveness of Native responses. By comparing the experiences of the Okfuskee and their British American contemporaries, the book relates how Native and Euro-American histories intersected with, and diverged from, each other
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
Choctaws and Power 2. The Multiethnic Confederacy 3. Warriors, Warfare, and Male Power 4. Power Derived from the Outside World 5. Trading for Power 6. Otherworldly Power and Power in Transition Notes Selected Bibliography Index
Colonists and Creeks: Rethinking the Pre-Revolutionary Southern Backcountry
Indians and Race in Early America: A Review Essay
This article explores the contours of a newly vibrant literature on American Indians and race in early America by reviewing the conclusions offered in ten books published between 2001 and 2004. It focuses on three issues: the Euro‐American move toward racializing Indians; the Native Americans’ own perspectives on difference and race; and the degree to which the beliefs of Native and Euro‐Americans emerged as a consequence of cross‐cultural conver…
Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America
Journal Article Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America Get access Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. By Piker Joshua. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi + 270 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00.) Marvin T. Smith Marvin T. Smith Valdosta State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 36, Issue 4, Winter 2005, Pages 510–51…
Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country
Book Review| October 01 2007 Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country. Edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. $23.95 paper.) Joshua Piker Joshua Piker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2007) 54 (4): 761–762. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-2007-031 Cite Icon…
A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813-1814
Of Ethnohistory, Archaeology, and Playing with Fire: A Comment on Foster and Cohen 2007
This Comment interrogates claims made by Foster and Cohen (2007) regarding eighteenth-century Creek Indian hunting strategies. It argues that Foster and Cohen's attempts to link the archaeological and ethnohistorical record are flawed because of their misreading of the latter. The 'Comment' demonstrates that Creeks did not-contra Foster and Cohen (2007)-conduct large-scale hunts near their communities or frequently rely on fire-drives. Thus, poll…
Lying Together: The Imperial Implications of Cross‐Cultural Untruths
For to imagine or entertain the most distant Thoughts that a whole Nation of People should enter into a Confederacy to tell a Falsehood, and that it should be attested upon a solemn Oath of twenty-seven white Men who were all in the Nation at the same Time, and that None of them should make the least Objection as to the Truth thereof is a Supposition as weak as rediculous, and carries its own Confutation along with it
The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier
Book Review| October 01 2011 The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier The Second Creek War: Interethnic Conflict and Collusion on a Collapsing Frontier. By Ellisor, John T.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2010. vi + 497 pp., introduction, maps, bibliography, index. $50.00 cloth.) Joshua Piker Joshua Piker Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Ethnohistory (2011) 58 (4): 738–73…
The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler: Telling Stories in Colonial America
Who was Acorn Whistler, and why did he have to die? A deeply researched analysis of a bloody eighteenth-century conflict and its tangled aftermath, The Four Deaths of Acorn Whistler unearths competing accounts of the events surrounding the death of this Creek Indian. Told from the perspectives of a colonial governor, a Creek Nation military leader, local Native Americans, and British colonists, each story speaks to issues that transcend the conde…
The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies
Journal Article The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies Get access David La Vere. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. 262 pp. $30.00.) Journal of American History, Volume 101, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 557–558, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jau372 Published: 01 September 2014
Measuring Vast Early America: Where and When, but Also Who and How
In this editor's note, Joshua Piker invites readers to consider how we might measure the scope of Vast Early America using data from his time as editor of the William and Mary Quarterly
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