Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier

by Andrew K. Frank

Book Overview

Creeks and Southerners examines the families created by the hundreds of intermarriages between Creek Indian women and European American men in the southeastern United States during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Called "Indian countrymen" at the time, these intermarried white men moved into their wives' villages in what is now Florida, Georgia, and Alabama. By doing so, they obtained new homes, familial obligations, occupations,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803268416
• ISBN13: 9780803268418
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"