From Chicaza to Chickasaw : The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715

In This Sweeping Regional History, Anthropologist Robbie Ethridge Traces The Metamorphosis Of The Native South From First Contact In 1540 By Hernando De Soto To The Dawn Of The Eighteenth Century, When Indigenous People No Longer Lived In A Purely Indian World But Rather On The Edge Of An Expanding European Empire And In A New Social Landscape That Included A Large Population Of Europeans And Africans. Despite The Fact That Thousands Of Indians Died Or Were Enslaved And Virtually All Native Polities Were Radically Altered In These Years, The Collapse Of This Complex Mississippian World Did Not Extinguish The Native Peoples Of The South But Rather Transformed Them. Using A New Interpretive Framework That Ethridge Calls The Mississippian Shatter Zone To Explicate These Tumultuous Times, From Chicaza To Chickasaw Examines The European Invasion And The Collapse Of The Precontact Mississippian World And The Restructuring Of Discrete Chiefdoms Into Coalescent Native Societies In A Colonial World. Within This Larger Regional Context, She Closely Follows The Story Of One Group--the Chickasaws--throughout This Period. With Skillfully Synthesized Archaeological And Documentary Evidence, Ethridge Illuminates The Native South In Its Earliest Colonial Context And Sheds New Light On The Profound Upheaval And Cultural Transformation Experienced By The Region's First Peoples.--jacket. Chicaza And The Mississippian World, Ca. 1540-1541 -- The Battle Of Chicaza And Mississippian Warfare, Ca. 1541 -- The Aftermath Of Soto, Ca. 1541-1650 -- The English Invasion And The Creation Of A Shatter Zone, Ca. 1650-1680 -- Eastern Shock Waves On Western Shores, Ca. 1650-1680 -- Western Expansion Of The Shatter Zone, Ca. 1680-1700 -- European Imperialism And The Intensification Of The Colonial Indian Slave Trade, Ca. 1700-1710 -- The Emergence Of The Colonial South, Ca. 1710-1715. Robbie Ethridge. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [305]-334) And Index. Contents ......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 12 Introduction......Page 16 1 Chicaza and the Mississippian World, ca. 1540–1541......Page 26 2 The Battle of Chicaza and Mississippian Warfare, ca. 1541......Page 57 3 The Aftermath of Soto, ca. 1541–1650......Page 75 4 The English Invasion and the Creation of a Shatter Zone, ca. 1650–1680......Page 104 5 Eastern Shock Waves on Western Shores, ca. 1650–1680......Page 131 6 Western Expansion of the Shatter Zone, ca. 1680–1700......Page 164 7 European Imperialism and the Intensification of the Colonial Indian Slave Trade, ca. 1700–1710......Page 209 8 The Emergence of the Colonial South, ca. 1710–1715......Page 247 Epilogue......Page 270 Notes......Page 272 Bibliography......Page 320 B......Page 350 C......Page 351 E......Page 352 H......Page 353 M......Page 354 N......Page 355 R......Page 356 T......Page 357 W......Page 358 Y......Page 359

In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using a framework that Ethridge calls the "Mississippian shatter zone" to explicate these tumultuous times, From Chicaza to Chickasaw examines the European invasion, the collapse of the precontact Mississippian world, and the restructuring of discrete chiefdoms into coalescent Native societies in a colonial world. The story of one group—the Chickasaws—is closely followed through this period.

Annotation In this sweeping regional history, anthropologist Robbie Ethridge traces the metamorphosis of the Native South from first contact in 1540 to the dawn of the eighteenth century, when indigenous people no longer lived in a purely Indian world but rather on the edge of an expanding European empire. Using a framework that Ethridge calls the "Mississippian shatter zone" to explicate these tumultuous times,From Chicaza to Chickasawexamines the European invasion, the collapse of the precontact Mississippian world, and the restructuring of discrete chiefdoms into coalescent Native societies in a colonial world. The story of one group--the Chickasaws--is closely followed through this period