The Native South ─ New Histories and Enduring Legacies

In The Native South, Tim Alan Garrison and Greg O’Brien assemble contributions from leading ethnohistorians of the American South in a state-of-the-field volume of Native American history from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century. Spanning such subjects as Seminole–African American kinship systems, Cherokee notions of guilt and innocence in evolving tribal jurisprudence, Indian captives and American empire, and second-wave feminist activism among Cherokee women in the 1970s, The Native South offers a dynamic examination of ethnohistorical methodology and evolving research subjects in southern Native American history.

Theda Perdue and Michael Green, pioneers in the modern historiography of the Native South who developed it into a major field of scholarly inquiry today, speak in interviews with the editors about how that field evolved in the late twentieth century after the foundational work of James Mooney, John Swanton, Angie Debo, and Charles Hudson.

This collection offers original essays for scholars, graduate students, and undergraduates in this field of American history, including Mikaela Adams, James T. Carson, Tim Alan Garrison, Izumi Ishii, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Rowena McClinton, David Nichols, Greg O’Brien, Meg Devlin O’Sullivan, Julie Reed, Christina Snyder, and Rose Stemlau.

Tim Alan Garrison is a professor and chair of the Department of History at Portland State University. He is the editor of “Our Cause Will Ultimately Triumph”: Profiles in American Indian Sovereignty. Greg O’Brien is an associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the editor of Pre-Removal Choctaw History: Exploring New Paths and is the executive editor of the journal Native South.