| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

Creeks and Southerners: Biculturalism on the Early American Frontier. By Andrew K. Frank. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xvi, 192 pp. $49.95, ISBN 0-8032-2016-2.)
Serious studies of race and identity in the American South are forced to confront a highly charged and complex history that continues to haunt us today. As a new attempt to see through those dark waters, Andrew K. Frank's Creeks and Southerners is a welcome and courageous work of scholarship.	1
The book focuses on persons of European ancestry, principally English, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries who chose to live in the Creek Indian homelands in what is today Alabama and western Georgia. Those individuals and their offspring frequently dressed and acted as Creek Indians, or Creek "countrymen," and were accepted in varying degrees as members of the Creek polity. As such, they represent a unique perspective from which to view the evolving relationship between Creek society and European colonial powers and, ultimately, the United States.	. . .

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