What is this website about?
Research into historical and modern American Indian groups is usually hard to find, hidden behind scholarly journal fees and often riddled with academic jargon. The attempt for this class, and the subsequent creation of this blog, is to synthesize and collate information, histories, and insight into the American Indian groups in the Southeast before, during, and after Removal.
This website was created by a Georgia Southern University Anthropology course on the Southeastern Indians. In the class, students learn and research the historical and contemporary groups of American Indians of the Southeast. Students submitted research that focused on a variety of topics over the semester. These topics were then compiled and edited by a graduate student who created this blog as a repository and public resource for those interested in learning more about historic and contemporary American Indians of the Southeast.
As there was only a number of students in the course, we are only able to present a few of the many. Future classes will continue the website by adding more federally and state recognized groups. The first group of students researched the following:
- Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
- Choctaw Tribes of Louisiana
- The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
- The Muscogee Creek Nation of Oklahoma
- Natchez
- United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians
- The Seminole Nation of Oklahoma
- Tribes of Virginia
Topics studied within each group are:
- Available Web resources and other online sources of information
- Name and Language
- Geography
- Related Groups
- Historical Events
- Marriage and Kinship (traditional and contemporary)
- Foodways
- Religious life (traditional and contemporary)
- Political system (traditional and contemporary)
- Business and Economy (traditional and contemporary)
- Material Culture (hallmark items or materials)
All posts were researched, written, and assembled by Dr. Heidi Altman, graduate student Rhianna Bennett, and students of the 2016 ANTH 4434 class: Miranda Hazelwood, Cary Helmuth, Hillary Jeffers, Lena Kepler, Nicholas Miller, Jada Moodie, Emma Tharp, Devan Vernold, Trent Wilkerson, and Ahmauri Williams-Alford.
This is a collaborative endevour that welcomes feedback and comments. If you would like to provide information, links, or observation about any page or the website as a whole, feel free to leave a comment below!
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