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By Robbie Ethridge, Sheri M. Shuck-Hall

ISBN-10: 0803217595

ISBN-13: 9780803217591

During the 2 centuries following ecu touch, the area of overdue prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and local groups there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and infrequently really diverse societies. The editors of this quantity, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that this kind of interval and sector of instability and regrouping constituted a “shatter zone.”
 
In this anthology, archaeologists, ethnohistorians, and anthropologists learn the shatter area created within the colonial South by analyzing the interactions of yankee Indians and eu colonists. The forces that destabilized the zone incorporated particularly the frenzied advertisement site visitors in Indian slaves carried out by way of either Europeans and Indians, which decimated a number of southern local groups; the inherently fluid political and social association of precontact Mississippian chiefdoms; and the frequent epidemics that unfold around the South. utilizing examples from various Indian communities—Muskogee, Catawba, Iroquois, Alabama, Coushatta, Shawnee, Choctaw, Westo, and Natchez—the members check the shatter quarter area as a complete, and the various ways that local peoples wrestled with an more and more risky international and labored to reestablish order.

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Recent overviews of the archaeology and reconstruction of Cahokia his44 ethridge tory are Milner, Cahokia Chiefdom, and Pauketat, Ancient Cahokia. ” One can visit the center of Cahokia, which is now a state historic site just east of present-day St. Louis, Missouri. 12. The full regional range of the Mississippian culture was established in the essays collected by Bruce Smith in Mississippian Settlement Patterns. 1; Knight and Steponaitis, Moundville Chiefdom; King, Etowah; Dye and Cox, Towns and Temples; and Lewis and Stout, Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces.

119 In these years Southern Indian history was marked by monumental, transformative world-shaping events. 120 We are only just beginning to understand precisely what happened when a chiefdom fell; it most likely broke apart, although the lines of breakage are unclear. 121 The petites nations and settlement Indians, for example, represent new social types. In the case of the settlement Indians, these groups did not coalesce but remained small independent groups. 122 Like the settlement Indians, the petites nations of the Louisiana Gulf did not coalesce but remained as small and independent groups.

74 Most of these militaristic slaving societies were short lived, existing for 24 ethridge only about a hundred years — from 1620 to 1720. During this brief window of time, they were key agents in the creation and expansion of the Mississippian shatter zone through a relentless raiding of their Indian neighbors for slaves. As we will see, not all militaristic slaving societies were the same, nor were all of their motives for slaving and warfare the same. In the case of the Iroquois, for example, their widespread slaving, although entwined with their trade interests, was to replace their dwindling population.

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