Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast, Revised and Expanded Edition

Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatans Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and cartography can be brought together in fresh and meaningful ways to illuminate life in the early South. In a series of provocative original essays, a dozen leading scholars show how diverse Native Americans interacted with newcomers from Europe and Africa during the three hundred years of dramatic change beginning in the early sixteenth century. For this new and expanded edition, the original contributors have revisited their subjects to offer further insights based on years of additional scholarship. The book includes four new essays, on calumet ceremonialism, social diversity in French Louisiana, the gendered nature of Cherokee agriculture, and the ideology of race among Creek Indians. The result is a volume filled with detailed information and challenging, up-to-date reappraisals reflecting the latest interdisciplinary research, ranging from Indian mounds and map symbolism to diplomatic practices and social structure, written to interest fellow scholars and informed general readers. Gregory A. Waselkov is a professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama. He is the coeditor of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians (Nebraska 2002). Peter H. Wood is a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America and a coauthor of the U.S. history textbook Created Equal. Tom Hatley is Sequoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University and the author of The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution.

Table of Contents:
Part One, Geography and Population Introduction, Peter H. Wood (Duke University); The Land and Water Communication Systems of the Southeastern Indians, Helen Hornbeck Tanner (Newberry Library); Aboriginal Population Movements in the Early Historic Period Interior Southeast, Marvin T. Smith (Valdosta State University); The Changing Population of the Colonial South: An Overview by Race and Region, 1685-1790, Peter H. Wood (Duke University); Interconnectedness and Diversity in "French Louisiana," Kathleen DuVal (UNC-Chapel Hill); American Indians in Colonial New Orleans, Daniel H. Usner, Jr. (Vanderbilt University) Part Two, Politics and Economics Introduction, Gregory A. Waselkov (University of South Alabama); Ruling "the Republic of Indians" in Seventeenth-Century Florida, Amy Turner Bushnell (College of Charleston, emeritus); Early English Effects on Virginia Algonquian Exchange and Tribute in the Tidewater Potomac, Stephen R. Potter (National Park Service); Cockacoeske, Queen of Pamunkey: Diplomat and Suzeraine, Martha W. McCartney (Independent scholar); "Our Bond of Peace": Patterns of Intercultural Exchange in the Carolina Piedmont, 1650-1750, James H. Merrell (Vassar College); Cherokee Women Farmers Hold Their Ground, Tom Hatley (Western Carolina University) Part Three, Symbols and Society Introduction, Tom Hatley (Western Carolina University); "The Chief Who Is Your Father": Choctaw and French Views of the Diplomatic Relation, Patricia Galloway (University of Texas-Austin); The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast as Observed Archaeologically, Ian W. Brown (University of Alabama); Symbolism of Mississippian Mounds, Vernon James Knight, Jr. (University of Alabama); Indian Maps of the Colonial Southeast, Gregory A. Waselkov (University of South Alabama); The Graysons' Dilemma: A Creek Family Confronts the Science of Race, Claudio Saunt (University of Georgia)

About the Author :
Gregory A. Waselkov is a professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Archaeological Studies at the University of South Alabama. He is the coeditor of William Bartram on the Southeastern Indians (Nebraska 2002). Peter H. Wood is a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of Strange New Land: Africans in Colonial America and a coauthor of the U.S. history textbook Created Equal. Tom Hatley is Sequoyah Distinguished Professor in Cherokee Studies at Western Carolina University and the author of The Dividing Paths: Cherokees and South Carolinians through the Era of Revolution.

Contributors include: Ian W. Brown, Amy Turner Bushnell, Kathleen DuVal, Patricia Galloway, Tom Hatley, Vernon James Knight Jr., Martha W. McCartney, James H. Merrell, Stephen R. Potter, Claudio Saunt, Marvin T. Smith, Helen Hornbeck Tanner, Daniel H. Usner Jr., Gregory A. Waselkov, and Peter H. Wood.