Alexander Mcgillivray And The Creek Confederacy

Author : R. Michael Pryor
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781453761076
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander McGillivray and the Creek Confederacy written by R. Michael Pryor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2010-08-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnicity, economics, and warfare! These were the factors that shaped the southern backcountry during the eighteenth century. Alexander McGillivray was by far one of the most influential Native American leaders from the Revolutionary and Federalist era. He became a central figure in the territorial struggles for commerce, sovereignty, and identity in what is now the southeastern region of the United States. In order to defend the borders of the Creek Confederacy McGillivray used an amazing mixture of political shrewdness, economic monopolization, and diplomatic finesse. During his relatively brief life of forty-three years he was commissioned as a British officer, a Spanish colonel, and an American brigadier general. However, throughout all of these seemingly conflicting positions he maintained an unyielding support for the Creek Indians and their right to exist as a people.

Author : john walton caughey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book mcgillivray of the greeks written by john walton caughey and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Orrmont
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diplomat in Warpaint written by Arthur Orrmont and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of a man of mixed Scottish and Indian blood who, as chief of the Creek Indians and friend of the British, defended his people's rights against Spanish and American encroachments during and after the American Revolution.

Author : George Stiggins
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817350012
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creek Indian History written by George Stiggins and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2003-01-22 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a handwritten manuscript more than 150 years old, Creek Indian History is a primary resource containing accounts of significant Indian/white encounters in early Alabama history--from the Indian perspective. Written in the early 1800s by George Stiggins, the son of a Creek mother and a white father, this volume recounts the origins and ways of life of the tribes of the Creek Confederacy and their viewpoints on such key events of the Creek War as Burnt Corn and Fort Mims. Stiggins was William Weatherford's brother-in-law, and thus his explanation of Weatherford's controversial role in the Creek War has special value. William Wyman's notes and introduction put the Stiggins account in historical perspective and traces its circuitous route to publication.

Author : Tracey Boraas
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780736815666
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creek written by Tracey Boraas and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the past and present of the Creek people. Traces their customs, family life, history, and culture, as well as relations with the U.S. government.

Author : Kathleen DuVal
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588369617
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Independence Lost written by Kathleen DuVal and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rising-star historian offers a significant new global perspective on the Revolutionary War with the story of the conflict as seen through the eyes of the outsiders of colonial society Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award • Winner of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Jersey History Prize • Finalist for the George Washington Book Prize Over the last decade, award-winning historian Kathleen DuVal has revitalized the study of early America’s marginalized voices. Now, in Independence Lost, she recounts an untold story as rich and significant as that of the Founding Fathers: the history of the Revolutionary Era as experienced by slaves, American Indians, women, and British loyalists living on Florida’s Gulf Coast. While citizens of the thirteen rebelling colonies came to blows with the British Empire over tariffs and parliamentary representation, the situation on the rest of the continent was even more fraught. In the Gulf of Mexico, Spanish forces clashed with Britain’s strained army to carve up the Gulf Coast, as both sides competed for allegiances with the powerful Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Creek nations who inhabited the region. Meanwhile, African American slaves had little control over their own lives, but some individuals found opportunities to expand their freedoms during the war. Independence Lost reveals that individual motives counted as much as the ideals of liberty and freedom the Founders espoused: Independence had a personal as well as national meaning, and the choices made by people living outside the colonies were of critical importance to the war’s outcome. DuVal introduces us to the Mobile slave Petit Jean, who organized militias to fight the British at sea; the Chickasaw diplomat Payamataha, who worked to keep his people out of war; New Orleans merchant Oliver Pollock and his wife, Margaret O’Brien Pollock, who risked their own wealth to organize funds and garner Spanish support for the American Revolution; the half-Scottish-Creek leader Alexander McGillivray, who fought to protect indigenous interests from European imperial encroachment; the Cajun refugee Amand Broussard, who spent a lifetime in conflict with the British; and Scottish loyalists James and Isabella Bruce, whose work on behalf of the British Empire placed them in grave danger. Their lives illuminate the fateful events that took place along the Gulf of Mexico and, in the process, changed the history of North America itself. Adding new depth and moral complexity, Kathleen DuVal reinvigorates the story of the American Revolution. Independence Lost is a bold work that fully establishes the reputation of a historian who is already regarded as one of her generation’s best. Praise for Independence Lost “[An] astonishing story . . . Independence Lost will knock your socks off. To read [this book] is to see that the task of recovering the entire American Revolution has barely begun.”—The New York Times Book Review “A richly documented and compelling account.”—The Wall Street Journal “A remarkable, necessary—and entirely new—book about the American Revolution.”—The Daily Beast “A completely new take on the American Revolution, rife with pathos, double-dealing, and intrigue.”—Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Encounters at the Heart of the World

Author : Michael D. Green
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Creeks written by Michael D. Green and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benjamin W. Griffith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book McIntosh and Weatherford, Creek Indian Leaders written by Benjamin W. Griffith and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Absalom Harris Chappell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oconee War. Alexander McGillivray. Gen. Elijah Clark. Col. Benjamin Hawkins written by Absalom Harris Chappell and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Frank
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803220162
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creeks and Southerners written by Andrew Frank and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Creeks and Southerners studies the ways in which many children of these relationships lived both as Creek Indians and white Southerners. By carefully altering their physical appearances, choosing appropriate clothing, learning multiple languages, embracing maternal and paternal kinsmen and kinswomen, and balancing their loyalties, the children of intermarriages found ways to bridge what seemed to be an unbridgeable divide."--BOOK JACKET.