Category: Creeks and Cherokees of the old South
History of the Southeastern Native Americans with focus on Georgia
03.10.2021
Connections: Complex History Along Florida’s “Forgotten Coast”
After a year of near isolation, we ventured to the Gulf Coast of west Florida, celebrating our anniversary…
05.08.2021
New Echota and the Cherokee Removal Story
The old capital of the Cherokee Nation is part restoration, part reconstruction. It includes a small and beautifully…
30.07.2021
“Indian Territory”: A Few Common Misconceptions About the Southeastern Native Americans
Most of us have a tendency to “conflate” what we learn about specific periods of history so that…
15.02.2020
Cherokee vs. Creeks: Who Owned Georgia?
When I am speaking to various groups and am asked the question “What Indians lived here?” my answer…
03.09.2019
Whitetail Empire, Part 2
George Galphin and the Indian Trade in the Era of the American Revolution While much of their story…
20.07.2019
Jack Weatheford, Indian Givers; How Indians of the Americas Transformed the World. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1988. (Paperback edition from Crown Publishers, Ballantine Books Edition 1990.)
Brilliant. When I became the director of the Native American-focused Funk Heritage Center at Reinhardt University, I knew…
01.07.2019
White Tail Empire: The Deerskin Trade in the Southern Colonies (Part One: How the Trade Worked)
Trade in the southern backcountry was largely based on Britain’s need for hides-deerskins to be specific. That trade…