Description:
Weaving a new narrative of the Creeks and outlining the contours of their riverine mode of governance, this work unpacks the fraught dimensions of political power in the Native South--and, indeed, Native North America--in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By privileging Indigenous thought and intertribal history, it also advances the larger project of Native American history.
Brief description:
Steven Peach is Associate Professor of History at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.
Review Quotes: "This exciting new book joins a growing body of scholarship that re-focuses early American history away from English colonies on the Atlantic coast to a richer, more diverse continent west and south of the Appalachian Mountains. Peach's analysis of a provincial, or "riverine," mode of governance draws attention to fascinating political experiments based on Indigenous frameworks and challenges readers to rethink how we conceptualize eighteenth-century Native polities."--Joshua S. Haynes, author of Patrolling the Border: Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796