With essays by Stephen Davis, Penelope Drooker, Patricia K. Galloway,
Steven Hahn, Charles Hudson, Marvin Jeter, Paul Kelton, Timothy
Pertulla, Christopher Rodning, Helen Rountree, Marvin T. Smith, and John
Worth
The first two-hundred years of Western civilization in the Americas was
a time when fundamental and sometimes catastrophic changes occurred in
Native American communities in the South.
In The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760,
historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists provide perspectives on
how this era shaped American Indian society for later generations and
how it even affects these communities today.
This collection of essays presents the most current scholarship on the
social history of the South, identifying and examining the historical
forces, trends, and events that were attendant to the formation of the
Indians of the colonial South.
The essayists discuss how Southeastern Indian culture and society
evolved. They focus on such aspects as the introduction of European
diseases to the New World, long-distance migration and relocation, the
influences of the Spanish mission system, the effects of the English
plantation system, the northern fur trade of the English, and the
French, Dutch, and English trade of Indian slaves and deerskins in the
South.
This book covers the full geographic and social scope of the Southeast,
including the indigenous peoples of Florida, Virginia, Maryland, the
Appalachian Mountains, the Carolina Piedmont, the Ohio Valley, and the
Central and Lower Mississippi Valleys.