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Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatan’s Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and cartography can be brought together in fresh and meaningful ways to illuminate life in the early South. In a series of provocative original essays, a dozen leading scholars show how diverse Native Americans interacted with newcomers from Europe and Africa during the three hundred years of dramatic change beginning in the early sixteenth century.

For this new and expanded edition, the original contributors have revisited their subjects to offer further insights based on years of additional scholarship. The book includes four new essays, on calumet ceremonialism, social diversity in French Louisiana, the gendered nature of Cherokee agriculture, and the ideology of race among Creek Indians. The result is a volume filled with detailed information and challenging, up-to-date reappraisals reflecting the latest interdisciplinary research, ranging from Indian mounds and map symbolism to diplomatic practices and social structure, written to interest fellow scholars and informed general readers.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page
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  1. Table of Contents
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  1. General Introduction to the Revised Edition
  2. pp. 1-16
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  1. Part One: Geography and Population
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 19-25
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  1. The Land and Water Communication Systems of the Southeastern Indians
  2. pp. 27-42
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  1. Aboriginal Population Movements in the Early Historic Period Interior Southeast
  2. pp. 43-56
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  1. The Changing Population of the Colonial South: An Overview by Race and Region, 1685–1790
  2. pp. 57-132
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  1. Interconnectedness and Diversity in “French Louisiana”
  2. pp. 133-162
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  1. American Indians in Colonial New Orleans
  2. pp. 163-186
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  1. Part Two: Politics and Economics
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 189-194
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  1. Ruling “the Republic of Indians” in Seventeenth-Century Florida
  2. pp. 195-213
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  1. Early English Effects on Virginia Algonquian Exchange and Tribute in the Tidewater Potomac
  2. pp. 215-241
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  1. Cockacoeske, Queen of Pamunkey: Diplomat and Suzeraine
  2. pp. 243-266
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  1. “Our Bond of Peace: Patterns of Intercultural Exchange in the Carolina Piedmont, 1650–1750
  2. pp. 267-304
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  1. Cherokee Women Farmers Hold Their Ground
  2. pp. 305-335
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  1. Part Three: Symbols and Society
  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 339-344
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  1. “The Chief Who Is Your Father”: Choctaw and French Views of the Diplomatic Relation
  2. pp. 345-370
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  1. The Calumet Ceremony in the Southeast as Observed Archaeologically
  2. pp. 371-419
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  1. Symbolism of Mississippian Mounds
  2. pp. 421-434
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  1. Indian Maps of the Colonial Southeast
  2. pp. 435-502
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  1. The Graysons’ Dilemma: A Creek Family Confronts the Science of Race
  2. pp. 503-520
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  1. The Contributors
  2. pp. 521-524
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 525-550
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