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Author Hudson, Angela Pulley.

Title Creek paths and federal roads : Indians, settlers, and slaves and the making of the American South / Angela Pulley Hudson.

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 252 pages) : illustrations, maps
data file
Physical Medium polychrome
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Creek Nation -- History.
Creek Indians -- Land tenure -- Southern States -- History.
Creek Indians -- Land tenure.
Southern States.
History.
Creek Indians.
Creek Indians -- Government relations.
Creek Indians -- Government relations.
Creek Indians -- Relocation.
Creek Indians -- Relocation.
Indian trails -- Southern States -- History.
Indian trails.
Roads -- Southern States -- History.
Roads.
Transportation -- Southern States -- History.
Transportation.
Creek War, 1813-1814.
Creek War (1813-1814)
Southern States -- Boundaries -- History.
Boundaries.
Chronological Term 1813-1814
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Hudson, Angela Pulley. Creek paths and federal roads. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2010 9780807833933 (DLC) 2009049093 (OCoLC)441211580
ISBN 9780807898277 (electronic book)
0807898279 (electronic book)
9781469604008 (electronic book)
1469604000 (electronic book)
0807833932 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807833933 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0807871214 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807871218 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780807833933 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780807871218 (paperback ; alkaline paper)