| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4 | The History Cooperative

*Okfuskee: A Creek Indian Town in Colonial America*. By Joshua Piker. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004. xi + 270 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00.)
Joshua Piker gives us a fresh look and a new perspective on an important component of the Creek Confederacy. Piker convincingly argues that we should look at individual towns rather than focusing on the Creek Confederacy as a whole. The town, he argues, is the most important level of analysis for understanding most Creek political history. His detailed work on Okfuskee is a sterling example of his recommended approach.	1
Piker stresses the importance of individuals identified as Fanni Mico in the history of Okfuskee. This series of men established fictive kinship relationships with Englishmen, primarily out of Charleston, and represented these kinsmen in local affairs in Indian Country. In Piker's words, "A Fanni Mico acted, in other words, as a go-between, a person whose kinship ties allowed him to bring two peoples together in peace and harmony" (p. 23). These men gave Okfuskee a unique position in British-Creek relations.	. . .

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