Title Mapping the Mississippian shatter zone : the colonial Indian slave trade and regional instability in the American South / edited by Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall

Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (526 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction : mapping the Mississippian shatter zone / Robbie Ethridge -- Events as seen from the north : the Iroquois and colonial slavery / William A. Fox -- From refugees to slave traders : the transformation of the Westo Indians / Maureen Meyers -- "Caryinge awaye their corne and children" : the effects of Westo slave raids on the Indians of the lower south / Eric E. Bowne -- Catawba coalescence and the shattering of the Carolina piedmont, 1540-1675 / Robin A. Beck, Jr -- "Indians refusing to carry burdens" : understanding the success of Catawba political, military, and settlement strategies in colonial Carolina / Mary Elizabeth Fitts, Charles L. Heath -- "The greatest travelers in America" : Shawnee survival in the shatter zone / Stephen Warren, Randolph Noe -- Tracing the origins of the early creeks, 1050-1700 CE / Ned J. Jenkins -- Alabama and Coushatta diaspora and coalescence in the Mississippian shatter zone / Sheri M. Shuck-Hall -- Violence in a shattered world / Matthew H. Jennings -- Razing Florida : the Indian slave trade and the devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-1715 / John E. Worth -- Shattered and infected : epidemics and the origins of the Yamasee war, 1696-1715 / Paul Kelton -- Choctaws at the border of the shatter zone : spheres of exchange and spheres of social value / Patricia Galloway -- Shatter zone shock waves along the lower Mississippi / Marvin D. Jeter -- Picking up the pieces : Natchez coalescence in the shatter zone / George Edward Milne Summary During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and region of instability and regrouping constituted a "shatter zone." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-492) and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 24, 2020) Subject Mississippian culture -- Southern States Enslaved Indians -- Southern States -- History Slave trade -- Southern States -- History Regionalism -- Southern States -- History Social change -- Southern States -- History Europeans -- Southern States -- History Colonists -- Southern States -- History HISTORY -- State & Local -- General. HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Colonists Colonization Ethnic relations Europeans Enslaved Indians Mississippian culture Regionalism Slave trade Social change SUBJECT North America -- Colonization North America -- Ethnic relations Subject North America Southern States Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Ethridge, Robbie Franklyn, 1955- editor. Shuck-Hall, Sheri Marie, 1972- editor. LC no. 2009015044 ISBN 9780803226142 0803226144

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