| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4 | The History Cooperative

*Creeks & Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier*. By Andrew K. Frank. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xi + 192 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $49.95; 37.95.)
Following the American Revolution, David Cornell, the son of a Creek woman, fought against the United States. However, in 1793, he found it in his interest to distance himself from the Creeks and declare to a U. S. Indian agent, "I am a son of a white man, Joseph Cornell" (p. 88). David Cornell's Creek compatriots accepted him as Creek. The Indian agent in turn saw him as a white American. Andrew Frank's excellent new book shows that neither claim was a lie. Despite historians' tendency to emphasize one category over the other, Cornell was fully Creek and fully European-American.	1
Frank places men like Cornell within a long Creek history of incorporating new people and ideas. At least by Mississippian times, Creek ancestors valued knowledge and technology from foreign sources. This propensity accelerated with the creation of the Creek Confederacy, a response to the intrusion of Europeans and their diseases. Incorporating new groups and individuals allowed the Creeks to grow and prosper. As Frank explains, "ethnic diversity formed the backbone of the Creek Confederacy" (p. 24).	. . .

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