Creeks and Seminoles: The Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People / Edition 1

by J. Leitch Wright Jr.

Overview

During Andrew Jackson's time the Creeks and Seminoles (Muscogulges) were the largest group of Indians living on the frontier. In Georgia, Alabama, and Florida they manifested a geographical and cultural, but not a political, cohesiveness. Ethnically and linguistically, they were highly diverse. This book is the first to locate them firmly in their full historical context.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803297289
Publisher:	Nebraska Paperback
Publication date:	09/01/1990
Series:	Indians of the Southeast
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	383
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

J. Leitch Wright, Jr., was a professor of history at Florida State University and the author of such books as The Only Land They Knew: The Tragic Story of The American Indians in the Old South (1981).

Editorial Reviews

"This last work by J. Leitch Wright, Jr., is fascinating, fine scholarship and a significant contribution to native American historiography. . . . The author's 'ethnicity' argument provides an interesting alternative analysis of the course of Creek and Seminole history. Well stated and supported, it should excite students and scholars of southeastern Indian culture."—Robert L. Gold, American Historical Review

American Historical Review - Robert L. Gold

"Overall, the book is the best one-volume work available on the Creeks and Seminoles, and it is important reading for anyone who wishes to understand the Indians and their problems from their point of view."—Mary Jane McDaniel, Alabama Review

Alabama Review - Mary Jane McDaniel

"This book gives a fresh perspective on how the Creeks and Seminoles endured the test of Indian-white relations. . . . [It] is important in that it redirects thinking about the survival of the Muscogulges' identity and shows that it is much stronger than historical documents had led scholars to believe."—Donald L. Fixico, Journal of American History

Journal of American History - Donald L. Fixico

"This book gives a fresh perspective on how the Creeks and Seminoles endured the test of Indian-white relations. . . . [It] is important in that it redirects thinking about the survival of the Muscogulges' identity and shows that it is much stronger than historical documents had led scholars to believe."—Donald L. Fixico, Journal of American History

— Donald L. Fixico

Journal of American History

"This last work by J. Leitch Wright, Jr., is fascinating, fine scholarship and a significant contribution to native American historiography. . . . The author's 'ethnicity' argument provides an interesting alternative analysis of the course of Creek and Seminole history. Well stated and supported, it should excite students and scholars of southeastern Indian culture."—Robert L. Gold, American Historical Review

— Robert L. Gold

American Historical Review

"Overall, the book is the best one-volume work available on the Creeks and Seminoles, and it is important reading for anyone who wishes to understand the Indians and their problems from their point of view."—Mary Jane McDaniel, Alabama Review

— Mary Jane McDaniel

Alabama Review