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49) Black slaves, Indian masters: slavery, emancipation, and citizenship in the Native American south
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Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
"From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory. The tribes formulated racial and gender ideologies that justified this practice and marginalized free black people in the Indian nations well after the Civil War and slavery had ended. Through the end...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xii, 344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Using a new interpretive framework that Ethridge calls the "Mississippian shatter zone" to explicate these tumultuous times, From Chicaza to Chickasaw examines the European invasion and the collapse of the precontact Mississippian world and the restructuring of discrete chiefdoms into coalescent Native societies in a colonial world. Within this larger regional context, she closely follows the story of one group--the Chickasaws--throughout this period....
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English
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The diaries of thirteen-year-old Zoey, who lives in modern day Tennessee, and Prudence, who lives in 1811 Missouri, tell how the two girls survive the New Madrid earthquakes and the subsequent floods after Zoey travels back in time. Zoey's family has a strange feeling about the two-tailed comet in the sky. But that doesn't mean Zoey will let them chaperone her class field trip to Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee--especially since Grandma Cope grew up near...
57) Index to the final rolls of citizens and freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes in Indian Territory
Author
Publisher
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
v pages, 635 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Studies in American history and culture volume no. 18
Publisher
UMI Research Press
Pub. Date
[1980]
Physical Desc
x, 239 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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