Okfuskee

Joshua Piker is Associate Professor of History and Second Century Associates Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma.

• Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Peculiar Connections I. The Town and Its Neighbors 1. Okfuskee and the British, 1708-1745: Formation, Assertion, Indecision 2. Okfuskee and Charleston, 1749-1774: Decision, Correction, Reassertion 3. Leaving Okfuskee: Economic Activities Outside of Town II. The Town and Its People 4. Agriculture and Livestock: Changing Patterns of Land-Use in Okfuskee 5. Newcomers in the "Old White Town": Traders and Economic Life in Okfuskee 6. Big Women and Mad Men: The Okfuskees' Experiences with Gender and Generations Conclusion: "The Fiends of the Tallapoosie": Nuyaka, Tohopeka, and the Rise of Andrew Jackson Notes Index

Okfuskee makes an enormous contribution to our understanding of American Indian history and Indian-European relations. The Creek Confederacy is widely assumed to have had no center but to have been a coalition of autonomous towns joined in alliance. Piker is really the first to untangle what that meant in Creeks' day-to-day interactions with outsiders. His emphasis on a single town makes a vital contribution by breaking down the monolithic 'Indians' and 'English' paradigm that has shaped nearly all scholarship on the Indian-Anglo frontiers of colonial America. A strikingly original and important book.