| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.2

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Book Review

Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America. By Joshua Piker. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2004. xiv, 270 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-674-01335-2.)
Although scholars have known for years that Muscogee (Creek) Indian politics, diplomacy, and society in the eighteenth-century Southeast depended on the interplay of autonomous towns, few scholars have been courageous enough to explore seriously the implications of that knowledge by focusing on a single town. Joshua Piker begins to remedy that lapse in Okfuskee.	1
Piker crafted his book as a community study, and it draws effectively on the methods and insights of studies of the colonial-era towns. In so doing, he intended to make connections and draw comparisons that cross cultural and political boundaries to create "histories that are at once Native and American" (p. 2). The book focuses primarily on the six decades between the formalization of the Okfuskee's trading relationship with South Carolina in the first decade of the eighteenth century and the eve of the American Revolution. It is organized into two sections dealing with Okfuskee's external relationships with Europeans, on the one hand, and internal relationships, on the other, such as those between women and men, humans and animals.	. . .

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