The Native South
New Histories and Enduring Legacies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2739985 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Lemaster (Lehigh University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 344-345 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnohistory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0014-1801 • E-ISSN: 1527-5477 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/00141801-4385299 |
| OpenAlex | W2803260880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The Native South offers a collection of essays in honor of Theda Perdue and the late Michael Green by a panel of their former students, all established or up-and-coming scholars of Native history in their own right. The essays are a fine tribute to their mentors. The volume begins with an interview with Perdue and Green conducted by Greg O’Brien in 2012. O’Brien asked them about their academic backgrounds, about ethnohistory as a field, and about their reactions to the rise of Atlantic World studies. To those who never had the privilege of meeting Perdue and Green, the interview serves as an excellent introduction to these two eminent scholars. The essays that follow span a vast time period, from the colonial era to the modern day, although the center of gravity is the nineteenth century. Topics range from Moravian and Cherokee views of religion to southern opposition to Removal and to a Cherokee woman’s involvement in the California gold rush as well as to Cherokee women’s complex relationship to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It is impossible in a review of this length to do justice to all of the essays in this book, so I’ll highlight only a few. Scholars interested in the Native South are urged to pick up a copy of the volume and explore the rest of the essays.Colonial scholars like myself will be drawn to the two essays by David Nichols and Greg O’Brien, both of which address the chronically understudied Chickasaws. Nichols investigates the way that the Chickasaws parlayed their warlike reputation into a type of economic capital, acquiring gifts, territorial concessions, and other benefits from potential allies who valued their fierce military attributes. O’Brien studies the Chickasaw-Choctaw peace agreement during the French and Indian War, demonstrating that the peace was made earlier than commonly believed and because of indigenous priorities, not after the surrender of Louisiana to the British.Nineteenth-century scholars will find a wealth of articles of interest. Christina Snyder continues her notable work on the topic of captivity by looking at what Andrew Jackson’s adoption of his Indian “son” can tell us about the varieties of captivity that Native people experienced in Euro-American society. Julie Reed provides a nuanced reading of Cherokee law regarding executive pardon, demonstrating that the Cherokee “rejected, interpreted, navigated, used, and reconciled national policies governing amnesty and pardon with older legal theory” (127). Mikaëla Adams investigates the complex ways that African-descended individuals came to be incorporated into the Seminole nation of Florida during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, arguing that at times notions of kinship clashed with emerging racial notions to result in an imperfect integration of black Seminoles. Malinda Maynor Lowery demonstrates the complex relationship between kinship and capitalism in the Chickasaw and Choctaw nations by investigating the lives of two prominent Chickasaw women and their involvement in both education and coal mining.For the modern era, Meg Devlin O’Sullivan investigates the influence of Native women on the International Women’s Year conference in Houston in 1977, while James Taylor Carson reflects on the ethical issues surrounding modern development on sites of former indigenous occupation.Additional essays by Rowena McClinton (“Cherokee and Christian Expressions of Spirituality”), Tim Alan Garrison (“Inevitability and the Southern Opposition to Indian Removal”), Rose Stremlau (“Witnessing the West”), and Izumi Ishii (“Cherokee Women and the WCTU”) are all worth reading and should interest scholars of southern Indians. This slim but valuable volume has much to offer to anyone interested in Native history and the history of the South across the ages
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| Citations per year | 0.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |