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Overview"A comprehensive collection of the most important sources on the late historic Creek Indians and their environment. In 1795 Benjamin Hawkins, a former U.S. senator and advisor to George Washington, was appointed U.S. Indian agent and superintendent of all the tribes south of the Ohio River. Unlike most other agents, he lived among the Creek Indians for his entire tenure, from 1796 to 1816. Journeying forth from his home on the Flint River in Georgia, he served southeastern Indians as government intermediary during one of the longest eras of peace in the historic period. Hawkins's journals provide detailed information about European-Indian relations in the 18th-century frontier of the South. His descriptions of the natural and cultural environment are considered among the best sources for the ethnohistory of the Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and, especially, the Creek Indians and the natural history of their territory. Two previously published bodies of work by Benjamin Hawkins are included here-A Sketch of the Creek Country in the Years 1798 and 1799 and The Letters of Benjamin Hawkins 1796-1806. A third body of work that has never been published, ""A Viatory or Journal of Distances"" (describing routes and distances of a 3,578-mile journey through parts of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi), has been added. Together, these documents make up the known body of Hawkins' work—his talks, treaties, correspondence, aboriginal vocabularies, travel journals, and records of the manners, customs, rites, and civil polity of the tribes. Hawkins' work provides an invaluable record of the time period." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Benjamin Hawkins , H. Thomas Foster IIPublisher: The University of Alabama Press Imprint: The University of Alabama Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 1.160kg ISBN: 9780817350406ISBN 10: 0817350403 Pages: 716 Publication Date: 30 October 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsCentral to the understanding of the history, ethnohistory, geography, and environment of the Southeast in the last part of the 18th and early part of the 19th centuries. This volume is one of the most important collections of published primary source material on the southern frontier, the late 18th century Creek Indians, and the social and physical geography of the area that once comprised the Creek Confederacy. . . . Foster's Collected Works constitutes the most complete set of Hawkins's writings in print today. Scholars and lay readers alike will find in this collection of Hawkins's writings a fascinating trip into Creek country. -- Journal of the Early Republic Central to the understanding of the history, ethnohistory, geography, and environment of the Southeast in the last part of the 18th and early part of the 19th centuries. Unquestionably the best single-volume collection of Benjamin Hawkins' writings ever assembled . . . [and] the only available version in print. --John E. Worth, Director of Randell Research Center -Unquestionably the best single-volume collection of Benjamin Hawkins' writings ever assembled . . . [and] the only available version in print.---John E. Worth, Director of Randell Research Center -This volume is one of the most important collections of published primary source material on the southern frontier, the late 18th century Creek Indians, and the social and physical geography of the area that once comprised the Creek Confederacy. . . . Foster's Collected Works constitutes the most complete set of Hawkins's writings in print today. Scholars and lay readers alike will find in this collection of Hawkins's writings a fascinating trip into Creek country.---Journal of the Early Republic This volume is one of the most important collections of published primary source material on the southern frontier, the late 18th century Creek Indians, and the social and physical geography of the area that once comprised the Creek Confederacy. . . . Foster's Collected Works constitutes the most complete set of Hawkins's writings in print today. Scholars and lay readers alike will find in this collection of Hawkins's writings a fascinating trip into Creek country. --Journal of the Early Republic Author InformationH. Thomas Foster II is a senior archaeologist with Panamerican Consultants, Inc., in Columbus, Georgia, and Research Associate at Auburn University Montgomery. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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