Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : old paths, new paths -- Territoriality and mobility in eighteenth-century Creek country -- Settling boundaries and negotiating access -- Opening roads through Creek country -- War comes to the Creeks -- A new wave of emigration -- Remapping Creek country.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Hudson examines travel within and between southeastern Indian nations and the southern states from the founding of the United States until the forced removal of southeastern Indians in the 1830s. She focuses particularly on the creation and mapping of boundaries between Creek Indian lands and the states that grew up around themthe development of roads, canals, and other internal improvements within these territoriesand the ways that Indians, settlers, and slaves understood, contested, and collaborated on these boundaries and transit networks.
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22573/ctt60x1m
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Title
Creek paths and federal roads.
International Standard Book Number
9780807833933
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Creek Indians-- Government relations.
Creek Indians-- Land tenure-- Southern States-- History.
Creek Indians-- Relocation.
Creek War, 1813-1814.
Indian trails-- Southern States-- History.
Roads-- Southern States-- History.
Transportation-- Southern States-- History.
Boundaries.
Creek Indians-- Government relations.
Creek Indians-- Land tenure.
Creek Indians-- Relocation.
HISTORY-- State & Local.
HISTORY-- United States-- State & Local-- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)