| Description |
1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "The Whole Nation in Common": Native Rights and Border Defense, 1770-1773; 2 "Neither the Abicas, Tallapuses, nor Alibamas Desire to Have Any Thing to Say to the Cowetas but Desire Peace": The White-Sherrill Affair and the Rise of Border Patrols, 1774-1775; 3 "Settle the Matter Yourselves": The American Revolution in Creek Country, 1775-1783; 4 "We Mean to Have the Consent of Every Headman in the Whole Nation": Treaties, Resistance, and Internal Creek Political Conflict, 1783-1785. |
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5 "Always in Defense of Our Rights": The Creek Threat, Real and Imagined, 17866 "An Uncommon Degree of Ferocity": Border Patrols and the Oconee War, 1787-1790; 7 "The Indians Still Desputed Giving up Their Rights to That Land": Renewed Border Patrols, 1790-1793; 8 "Like Pulling Out Their Hearts and Throwing Them Away": State Control, 1793-1796; Epilogue: "All the Apprehensions of Savage Ferocity"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y. |
| Summary |
Patrolling the Border focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and violence culminating in open war along the Oconee River, the contested border between the two peoples. Joshua S. Haynes argues that the period should be viewed as the struggle of nonstate indigenous people to develop an effective method of resisting colonization. Using database and digital mapping applications, Haynes identifies one such method of resistance: a pattern of Creek raiding best described as politically motivated border patrols. Drawing on precontact ideas and two hundred years of political innovation, border patrols harnessed a popular spirit of unity to defend Creek country. These actions, however, sharpened divisions over political leadership both in Creek country and in the infant United States. In both polities, people struggled over whether local or central governments would call the shots. As a state-like institution, border patrols are the key to understanding seemingly random violence and its long-term political implications, which would include, ultimately, Indian removal. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Creek Indians -- Georgia -- History -- 18th century.
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Creek Indians. |
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Georgia. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
| Subject |
Georgia -- History -- 1775-1865.
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| Chronological Term |
1775-1865 |
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Indians of North America -- History.
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Indians of North America. |
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Creek Indians -- Government relations.
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Creek Indians -- Government relations. |
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Creek Indians -- History.
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| Chronological Term |
1700-1865 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| ISBN |
9780820353173 (electronic book) |
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0820353175 (electronic book) |
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9780820353166 |
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