Full Description
In Yuchi Indian Histories Before the Removal Era, folklorist and anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson and nine scholars of Yuchi (Euchee) Indian culture and history offer a revisionist and in-depth portrait of Yuchi community and society. This first interdisciplinary history of the Yuchi people corrects the historical record, which often submerges the Yuchi within the Creek Confederacy instead of acknowledging the Yuchi as a separate tribe.
By looking at the oral, historical, ethnographic, linguistic, and archaeological record, contributors illuminate Yuchi political circumstances and cultural identity. Focusing on the pre-Removal era, the volume shows that from the entrada of Hernando de Soto into the American South in 1541 to the Yuchis' internal migrations throughout the hinterlands of the South and their entanglement with the Creeks to the maintenance of community and identity today, the Yuchis have persisted as a distinct people. This volume provides a voice to an indigenous nation that previous generations of scholars have misidentified or erroneously assumed to be a simple constituent of the Creek Nation. In doing so, it offers a fuller picture of Yuchi social realities since the arrival of Europeans and other non-natives in their Southern homelands.
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
Introduction: On Studying Yuchi History
Jason Baird Jackson
1. Deep Time and Genetic Relationships: Yuchi Linguistic History Revisited
Mary S. Linn
2. Enigmatic Origins: On the Yuchi of the Contact Era
John E. Worth
3. Reconsidering Chestowee: The 1713 Raid in Regional Perspective
Brett Riggs
4. Yuchi in the Lower Savannah River Valley: Historical Context and Archaeological Confirmation
Daniel T. Elliott
5. The Yuchi Indians along the Chattahoochee and Flint Rivers (17151836): A Synthesis
H. Thomas Foster II
6. "They Look upon the Yuchis as Their Vassals": An Early History of Yuchi-Creek Political Relations
Steven C. Hahn
7. Reconsidering Coalescence: Yuchi and Shawnee Survival Strategies in the Colonial Southeast
Stephen Warren
8. To the Backcountry and Back Again: The Yuchi's Search for Stability in the Eighteenth-Century Southeast
Joshua Piker
9. A Band of Outsiders: Yuchi Identity among the Nineteenth-Century Florida Seminoles
Brent R. Weisman
List of Contributors
Index
