Zamumo's Gifts: Indian-European Exchange in the Colonial Southeast

by Joseph M. Hall, Jr.

Book Overview

In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they gave gifts for diplomacy or traded commodities for profit, Natives and newcomers alike used the exchange of goods such as cloth, deerskin, muskets, and sometimes people...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812222237
• ISBN13: 9780812222234
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"