Of One Mind and Of One Government by Kevin Kokomoor 2018 Hardback 9780803295872

Good Condition. 494 Pages. thru University of Nebraska Press & American Philosophical Society 6.25x9.5x1.5 inches. Synopsis The Rise and Fall of the Creek Nation in the Early Republic (New Visions in Native American and Indigenous Studies). In Of One Mind and Of One Government Kevin Kokomoor examines the formation of Creek politics and nationalism from the 1770s through the Red Stick War, when the aftermath of the American Revolution and the beginnings of American expansionism precipitated a crisis in Creek country. The state of Georgia insisted that the Creeks sign three treaties to cede tribal lands. The Creeks objected vigorously, igniting a series of border conflicts that escalated throughout the late eighteenth century and hardened partisan lines between pro-American, pro-Spanish, and pro-British Creeks and their leaders. Creek politics shifted several times through historical contingencies, self-interests, changing leadership, and debate about how... 264-01-02-25-01