Greg O'Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 4531741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Greg O'Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Greg |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Brien |
| SIGNATURE | BRIEN G O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina Greensboro , Greensboro, North Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Every European power with colonies in the Americas, to varying degrees, enslaved Indian peoples. Americans also owned, bought, and sold Indian slaves. Although historians and other scholars have revealed much about this pernicious practice, especially over the past two decades, understanding of the implications of widespread and multigenerational Indian slavery has not generally filtered down to public awareness or the teaching of American histor…
Robert Paulett. An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795
Journal Article Robert Paulett. An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795. Get access Robert Paulett. An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795. (Early American Places.) Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2012. Pp. xiii, 259. Cloth $69.95, paper $24.95. Greg O'Brien Greg O'Brien University of North Carolina-Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970
Journal Article The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970 Get access The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970. American Indian Law and Policy Series. By Kidwell Clara Sue. Foreword by Lindsay G. Robertson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xx + 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Greg O'Brien Greg O'Brien University of North Carolina at Greensboro Search for other works by …
Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians
A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
Journal Article A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America Get access A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Shoemaker Nancy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 211 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Greg O'Brien Greg O'Brien University of Southern Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W…
Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal
Book Review| July 01 2005 Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal By James R. Atkinson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-3-648 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Greg O'Brien; Splendid Land, Splendid P…
Chucalissa Museum David Dye Louella Weaver
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
The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760
The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760. Edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Pp. xxxix, 369. Preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, contributors, index. $50.00.) Scholarly efforts to trace the origins of southern distinctiveness have tended to overlook one of the most dynamic and formative periods in the region's history: the era from the mid-sixteenth through mid-e…
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
Journal Article Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830 Get access Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830. By O'Brien Greg. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xxviii + 158 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, £34.50.) Paul Kelton Paul Kelton University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 3, Autu 2003, Page 372, https://doi.org/10.230…
Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759-1775
Native Americans and the Early Republic
The Conqueror Meets the Unconquered: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries on the Post-Revolutionary Southern Frontier
On December 26, 1785, A group of 127 bedraggled Choctaw Indians arrived at Hopewell, Andrew Pickens's home on the Keowee River in South Carolina. They had trekked for over two months and traveled hundreds of miles from their central Mississippi homeland to represent the Choctaw people in a meeting with representatives of the United States government. Several days of negotiations resulted in the first treaty between these two powers. This encounte…
Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley
In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America. Richly detailed, Border Life captures the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era. In reconstructing the mental world of border inhabitants, Perkins draws on a pio…
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
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
The Conqueror Meets the Unconquered: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries on the Post-Revolutionary Southern Frontier
On December 26, 1785, A group of 127 bedraggled Choctaw Indians arrived at Hopewell, Andrew Pickens's home on the Keowee River in South Carolina. They had trekked for over two months and traveled hundreds of miles from their central Mississippi homeland to represent the Choctaw people in a meeting with representatives of the United States government. Several days of negotiations resulted in the first treaty between these two powers. This encounte…
Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley
In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America. Richly detailed, Border Life captures the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era. In reconstructing the mental world of border inhabitants, Perkins draws on a pio…
Border Life: Experience and Memory in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley
In this original and sensitive ethnography of frontier life, Elizabeth Perkins recovers the rhythms of warfare, subsistence, and cultural encounter that governed existence on the margins of British America. Richly detailed, Border Life captures the intimate perceptive universe of the men and women who colonized Kentucky and southern Ohio during the Revolutionary era. In reconstructing the mental world of border inhabitants, Perkins draws on a pio…
Native Americans and the Early Republic
The Conqueror Meets the Unconquered: Negotiating Cultural Boundaries on the Post-Revolutionary Southern Frontier
On December 26, 1785, A group of 127 bedraggled Choctaw Indians arrived at Hopewell, Andrew Pickens's home on the Keowee River in South Carolina. They had trekked for over two months and traveled hundreds of miles from their central Mississippi homeland to represent the Choctaw people in a meeting with representatives of the United States government. Several days of negotiations resulted in the first treaty between these two powers. This encounte…
Colonial Challenges: Britons, Native Americans, and Caribs, 1759-1775
The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760
The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760. Edited by Robbie Ethridge and Charles Hudson. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2002. Pp. xxxix, 369. Preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, contributors, index. $50.00.) Scholarly efforts to trace the origins of southern distinctiveness have tended to overlook one of the most dynamic and formative periods in the region's history: the era from the mid-sixteenth through mid-e…
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750-1830
Journal Article Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830 Get access Choctaws in a Revolutionary Age, 1750–1830. By O'Brien Greg. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002. xxviii + 158 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $45.00, £34.50.) Paul Kelton Paul Kelton University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 34, Issue 3, Autu 2003, Page 372, https://doi.org/10.230…
Chucalissa Museum David Dye Louella Weaver
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
A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America
Journal Article A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America Get access A Strange Likeness: Becoming Red and White in Eighteenth-Century North America. By Shoemaker Nancy. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. viii + 211 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.) Greg O'Brien Greg O'Brien University of Southern Mississippi Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar W…
Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal
Book Review| July 01 2005 Splendid Land, Splendid People: The Chickasaw Indians to Removal By James R. Atkinson. (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. https://doi.org/10.1215/00141801-52-3-648 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Greg O'Brien; Splendid Land, Splendid P…
Light on the Path: The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians
The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970
Journal Article The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970 Get access The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855–1970. American Indian Law and Policy Series. By Kidwell Clara Sue. Foreword by Lindsay G. Robertson. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. xx + 320 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Greg O'Brien Greg O'Brien University of North Carolina at Greensboro Search for other works by …
Robert Paulett. An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795
Journal Article Robert Paulett. An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795. Get access Robert Paulett. An Empire of Small Places: Mapping the Southeastern Anglo-Indian Trade, 1732–1795. (Early American Places.) Athens: University of Georgia Press. 2012. Pp. xiii, 259. Cloth $69.95, paper $24.95. Greg O'Brien Greg O'Brien University of North Carolina-Greensboro Search for other works by this author on: Oxford…
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America
Every European power with colonies in the Americas, to varying degrees, enslaved Indian peoples. Americans also owned, bought, and sold Indian slaves. Although historians and other scholars have revealed much about this pernicious practice, especially over the past two decades, understanding of the implications of widespread and multigenerational Indian slavery has not generally filtered down to public awareness or the teaching of American histor…
Enslaved Native Americans and the Making of Colonial South Carolina
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