Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into manydistinct tribes the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complexancie... » 

Though they speak several different languages and organize themselves into manydistinct tribes the Native American peoples of the Southeast share a complexancient culture and a tumultuous history. This volume examines and synthesizestheir history through each of its integral phases the complex and elaboratesocieties that emerged and flourished in the PreColumbian period the triplecurse of disease economic dependency and political instability brought by theEuropean invasion the role of Native Americans in the intercolonial strugglesfor control of the region the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes toOklahoma the challenges and adaptations of the postremoval period and thecreativity and persistence of those who remained in the Southeast. «