The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763

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Steven C. Hahn: The Invention of the Creek Nation, 1670-1763 (Paperback, 2014, University of Nebraska Press)

Paperback, 356 pages

Published Dec. 1, 2014 by University of Nebraska Press.

ISBN:
978-0-8032-6293-5
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3 stars (1 review)

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struck by the already-fatally-disturbed post-contact life

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Account of Creek/Muscogee villages and leaders balancing and negotiating between three colonial powers in and around central Georgia and Alabama. Gives reasonable agency and complexity to groups portrayed by colonial records as legible nations with clear hierarchy and allegiance. Already dependent on European trade, squeezed and transplanted and resettling on town sites previously wiped out by DeSoto's visits, the population pursues their own diverse political ends in the space between over the few generations covered, a bit narrower than I hoped even while it says it right there.