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Piker, Joshua Aaron

Okfuskee : A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America / Joshua Aaron Piker. - 1 online resource (284 p.)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map -- Introduction: Peculiar Connections -- I The Town and Its Neighbors -- 1 Okfuskee and the British, 1708–1745: Formation, Assertion, Indecision -- 2 Okfuskee and the British, 1749–1774: Decision, Correction, Reassertion -- 3 Leaving Okfuskee: Economic Activities Outside of Town -- II The Town and Its People -- 4 Agriculture and Livestock: Changing Patterns of Land Use in Okfuskee -- 5 Newcomers in the “Old White Town”: Traders and Economic Life in Okfuskee -- 6 Big Women and Mad Men: Okfuskee Experiences with Gender and Generational Relations -- Conclusion: “The Fiends of the Tallapoosie”—Nuyaka, Tohopeka, and the Rise of Andrew Jackson -- Notes -- Index

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9780674042131

Standard No.: 10.4159/9780674042131 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Creek Indians--Government relations--Alabama--Oakfuskee.
Creek Indians--History--18th century--Alabama--Oakfuskee.
HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775).

LC Class. No.: E99.C9 -- P55 2004eb

Dewey Class. No.: 976.1/64