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Contributors David I.Durham (PhD,The University of Alabama),is curator of Archival Collections,The University of Alabama School of Law. His book, A South­ ern Moderate in RadicalTimes: HenryWashington Hilliard, 1808–1892, was recently published by Louisiana State University Press. His writing and research interests include legislative, legal, and diplomatic topics in the United States and Latin America. Robbie Ethridge (PhD, University of Georgia) is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Mississippi.Her specialties are ethnohistory,cultural anthropology,and environmental anthropology,with a focus on the history of the south­ ern Indians during the Historic Period. She is the author of Creek Country:The Creek Indians andTheirWorld, 1796–1816 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003) and From Chicaza to Chickasaw:The European Invasion and theTransformation of the MississippianWorld,1540–1715 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010). Judith Knight (PhD, University of Florida) recently retired from The University of Alabama,where she served the Alabama Museum of Natural History for six years and worked another twenty-­ five years for The University of Alabama Press, primarily as a senior acquisitions editor specializing in anthropology , archaeology, and ethnohistory. J.Anthony Paredes (PhD,University of New Mexico) is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, Florida State University, and a former regional ethnographer for the Southeast Region of the National Park Service. Since 1972 he has done research and consultation with the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. He is a past president of the South­ ern Anthropological Society, the Society for Applied Anthropology, and the Association of Senior Anthropologists (a section of the Ameri­ can Anthropological Association) and is founding 206 / Contributors editor of The University of Alabama Press series Contemporary Ameri­ can Indian Studies. Paul M. Pruitt Jr. (PhD, College of William and Mary) is a special collections librarian at the Bounds Law Library at The University of Alabama.His specialties include legal history and south­ ern history. He recently published Taming Alabama: Lawyers and Reformers, 1804–1929 (The University of Alabama Press, 2010). Nina Gail Thrower, a member of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, retired with over thirty years of service to the tribe as tribal enrollment officer ,cultural educator,tribal council person,tribal historian,and genealogist. Her greatest contribution was her genealogical and his­tori­cal research,which helped lead to the acceptance of the tribe’s federal recognition in 1984. She was among the first researchers to read and study the Weatherford case, providing a unique Native Ameri­ can perspective on this pivotal his­ tori­ cal event as a direct lineal descendant of the early Creek residents of the Tensaw community . She died in 2011. Robert Thrower, the son of Nina Gail Thrower, is currently the tribal historic preservation officer and cultural authority director for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians, with over twenty years of service. He also chairs the Culture and Heritage Committee for the United South and East­ ern Tribes (USET),which comprises twenty-­six federally recognized tribes in the east­ ern region of the United States. His most recent research, “Causalities and Consequences of the Creek War:A Modern Creek Perspective,” is included in Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812, a book of essays published by The University of Alabama Press. Gregory A.Waselkov (PhD, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) is a Professor of Anthropology and director of the Center for Archaeologi­ cal Studies at the University of South Alabama, studies prehistoric subsistence, French colonialism, and the interaction of Creek Indians and Ameri­ can settlers during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the Gulf Coast region . He has written A Conquering Spirit: Fort Mims and the Redstick War of 1813–1814 (The University of Alabama Press,2006) and coedited ­ Powhatan’s Mantle:Indians in the Colonial Southeast (University of Nebraska Press,2006). ...

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