Mississippi's American Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mississippi's American Indians write by James F. Barnett Jr.. This book was released on 2012-04-04. Mississippi's American Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, over twenty different American Indian tribal groups inhabited present-day Mississippi. Today, Mississippi is home to only one tribe, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians. In Mississippi's American Indians, author James F. Barnett Jr. explores the historical forces and processes that led to this sweeping change in the diversity of the state's native peoples. The book begins with a chapter on Mississippi's approximately 12,000-year prehistory, from early hunter-gatherer societies through the powerful mound building civilizations encountered by the first European expeditions. With the coming of the Spanish, French, and English to the New World, native societies in the Mississippi region connected with the Atlantic market economy, a source for guns, blankets, and many other trade items. Europeans offered these trade materials in exchange for Indian slaves and deerskins, currencies that radically altered the relationships between tribal groups. Smallpox and other diseases followed along the trading paths. Colonial competition between the French and English helped to spark the Natchez rebellion, the Chickasaw-French wars, the Choctaw civil war, and a half-century of client warfare between the Choctaws and Chickasaws. The Treaty of Paris in 1763 forced Mississippi's pro-French tribes to move west of the Mississippi River. The Diaspora included the Tunicas, Houmas, Pascagoulas, Biloxis, and a portion of the Choctaw confederacy. In the early nineteenth century, Mississippi's remaining Choctaws and Chickasaws faced a series of treaties with the United States government that ended in destitution and removal. Despite the intense pressures of European invasion, the Mississippi tribes survived by adapting and contributing to their rapidly evolving world.
Mississippian Indians
Mississippian Indians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mississippian Indians write by Jill Ward. This book was released on 2010. Mississippian Indians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discusses the history and traditions of the Mississippians, an early group of Native Americans who lived by the Mississippi River and also established themselves in areas of Georgia, covering their societal structure, means of subsistence, and spiritual practices, which involved mounds that served as earth lodges and places of worship.
Mound Sites of the Ancient South
Mound Sites of the Ancient South - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mound Sites of the Ancient South write by Eric E. Bowne. This book was released on 2013-06-01. Mound Sites of the Ancient South available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From approximately AD 900 to 1600, ancient Mississippian culture dominated today’s southeastern United States. These Native American societies, known more popularly as moundbuilders, had populations that numbered in the thousands, produced vast surpluses of food, engaged in longdistance trading, and were ruled by powerful leaders who raised large armies. Mississippian chiefdoms built fortified towns with massive earthen structures used as astrological monuments and burial grounds. The remnants of these cities—scattered throughout the Southeast from Florida north to Wisconsin and as far west as Texas—are still visible and awe-inspiring today. This heavily illustrated guide brings these settlements to life with maps, artists’ reconstructions, photos of artifacts, and historic and modern photos of sites, connecting our archaeological knowledge with what is visible when visiting the sites today. Anthropologist Eric E. Bowne discusses specific structures at each location and highlights noteworthy museums, artifacts, and cultural features. He also provides an introduction to Mississippian culture, offering background on subsistence and settlement practices, political and social organization, warfare, and belief systems that will help readers better understand these complex and remarkable places. Sites include Cahokia, Moundville, Etowah, and many more. A Friends Fund Publication
Cahokia
Cahokia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cahokia write by Timothy R. Pauketat. This book was released on 2009-07-30. Cahokia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America.
Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone
Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone write by Robbie Franklyn Ethridge. This book was released on 2009-01-01. Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there fragmented, migrated, coalesced, and reorganized into new and often quite different societies. The editors of this volume, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri M. Shuck-Hall, argue that such a period and region of instability and regrouping constituted a "shatter zone."
