1st Edition

African Americans and Native Americans in the Cherokee and Creek Nations, 1830s-1920s Collision and Collusion

By Katja May Copyright 1996
308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

308 Pages
by Routledge

Illuminating the historical development of race relations from African American, Cherokee, and Muskeg (Creek) points of views, this book weaves a rich tapestry from oral history accounts, manuscript census schedules, and ethnohistorical literature. The Cherokee and Creek tribes were two of the largest in the Southeast and their forcible removal to Indian Territory affected tens of thousands of... Read more
List of Tables, List of Photographs, Acknowledgments, 1. The Context of Indian-Black Relations, 2. Creek Confederacy and Cherokee Nation: Indian-Black Relations Prior to 1830, 3. Cherokee Nation, 1830s-1900s, 4. The Muskogee Nation Prior to 1900, 5. Collusion in Insurgency: The Green Peach War and the Crazy Snake Uprising, 6. Demographic Profile: Muskogee Nation, 1880-1910, 7. Demographic Profile: Cherokee Nation, 1880-1910, 8. AfrÏcan American Immigration in the Creek and Cherokee Nations?1880s-1920s, 9. Collision and Collusion, Bibliography, Index

Biography

Katja May