Author: Ellis Merton Coulter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creek Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Frances Patton Statham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967523330
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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She would spend a lifetime fighting for her Indian heritage in a white man's world....Daughter of an English fur trader and his wilderness wife, young Coosaponakeesa, princess of the Upper and Lower Creeks, left her Indian village for Charlestown to be reared in the ways of the English. Baptized Mary, the deerskin-clad girl blossomed into a regal beauty, possessing the proud, courageous spirit of her Indian heritage. As wife, mother, and queen, her influence helped forge the greatest trading empire in the Charlestown and Savannah colonies. But times were treacherous, and as the English colonies expanded into the New World, so did the tensions and hostilities between Anglo and Indian. From the stark Indian village on the Chattahoochee River to the bustling streets of Charlestown and Savannah, through sixty years and three husbands, Mary follows her destiny as an indomitable force of peace between two peoples. And as a new nation struggles, Mary proves herself a woman of her land and her heritage...the true queen of her people.

Author:
Publisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: 9780635026316
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 16

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Author: Pamela Bauer Mueller
Publisher: Pinata Publishing
ISBN: 9780968509777
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Relates the role that Mary Musgrove, a Creek Indian, played as General Oglethorpe's interpreter in colonial America, smoothing the path to cooperation between the Creeks and the English settlers and ensuring the survival of colonial Georgia.

Author: Lawton Bryan Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372

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Author: Joy Day Buel
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393312102
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Combining the skills of a gifted writer and a scholar's grasp of early America, The Way of Duty draws readers into a vividly evoked world.

Author: Margaret Davis Cate
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Brunswick (Ga.)
Languages : en
Pages : 84

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Author: Steven C. Hahn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813042213
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A historical biography of Mary Musgrove.

Author: Steven C Hahn
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 0813042836
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 467

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The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one. As a literate Christian, entrepreneur, and wife of an Anglican clergyman, Mary was one of a small number of "mixed blood" Indians to achieve a position of prominence among English colonists. Born to a Creek mother and an English father, Mary's bicultural heritage prepared her for an eventful adulthood spent in the rough and tumble world of Colonial Georgia Indian affairs. Active in diplomacy, trade, and politics--affairs typically dominated by men--Mary worked as an interpreter between the Creek Indians and the colonists--although some argue that she did so for her own gains, altering translations to sway transactions in her favor. Widowed twice in the prime of her life, Mary and her successive husbands claimed vast tracts of land in Georgia (illegally, as British officials would have it) by virtue of her Indian heritage, thereby souring her relationship with the colony's governing officials and severely straining the colony's relationship with the Creek Indians. Using Mary's life as a narrative thread, Steven Hahn explores the connected histories of the Creek Indians and the colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. He demonstrates how the fluidity of race and gender relations on the southern frontier eventually succumbed to more rigid hierarchies that supported the region's emerging plantation system.

Author: John H. Hann
Publisher: University Press of Florida
ISBN: 1947372335
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida’s long history of publishing Latin American and Caribbean studies titles that connect in and through Florida, highlighting the connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. Books in this series show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers, both foreign and domestic. They examine topics critical to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, and tourism. They look at the growth of Florida and the Caribbean and the attendant pressures on the environment, culture, urban development, and the movement of peoples, both forced and voluntary. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series gathers the rich data available in these architectural, archaeological, cultural, and historical works, as well as the travelogues and naturalists’ sketches of the area prior to the twentieth century, making it accessible for scholars and the general public alike. The Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series is made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, under the Humanities Open Books program.