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Book Review

Canada and the United States



Robbie Ethridge. Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 369. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.50.

Anthropologist Robbie Ethridge has mustered impressive interdisciplinary skills to reconstruct what she calls "a distant, lost world—the world of the Creek Indians at the close of the eighteenth century" (p. 1). Through an imaginative use of archaeological and documentary records as well as some oral traditions, her book recovers daily life in a country that was integrally part of the modern world system. The writings of Benjamin Hawkins, U.S. agent to the Creek Confederacy from 1796 to 1816, constitute the main source for a detailed description of Creek country, from which Ethridge is even able to create maps that capture the local arrangement of villages and fields, archaeological sites, and topographical features of the surrounding landscape. Drawings by Basil Hall are also effectively utilized. . . .

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