...Brooke M. Bauer Fit for War: Sustenance and Order in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Catawba Nation . By Fitts Mary Elizabeth . ( Gainesville : University of Florida Press , 2017 . xv+356 pp., figures, tables, acknowledgments, references, index . $79.95 hardcover.) Copyright 2018...

... one of a number of tribes that spoke Catawban, and that the Catawba were an equal and integral part of a linguistic community rather than a subject people. American Society for Ethnohistory 2005 Adair, James 1930 [1775] Adair's History of the American Indians . Samuel Cole Williams, ed...

... in South Carolina of six Shawnee warriors who were intent on attacking the Catawba. The death of the most prominent of them, Itawachcomequa, or The Pride, prompted a declaration of a war that became an intermittent duel with the “Long Knives” over the next sixty years. Unfortunately, Shawnee fury...

...: Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Upper Catawba Valley, North Carolina. Southeastern Archaeology 21 : 192 -205. Blitz, John H. 1999 Mississippian Chiefdoms and the Fission-Fusion Process. American Antiquity 64 : 577 -92. Booker, Karen M., Charles M. Hudson, and Robert L. Rankin 1992 Place Name...

... Press of Mississippi . Evans-Pritchard E. E. 1962 Anthropology and History . In Social Anthropology and Other Essays . Pp. 172 – 191 . Manchester : Manchester University Press . Hudson Charles 1970 The Catawba Nation . Athens : University of Georgia Press . 1976...

... threats of trade embargoes, as with the Catawba, a group of Siouan-speaking towns in the Piedmont then coalescing into a nation (Fitts and Heath 2009 ). The Catawba exploited the Carolina-Virginia trade rivalry to get what they wanted. The largest recorded party of Catawba burdeners was a mere twenty men...

...-book). Copyright 2017 by American Society for Ethnohistory 2017 In Chiefdoms, Collapse, and Coalescence in the Early American South Robin Beck documents the Indians of the Carolina Piedmont and their violent transition from Mississippian chiefdoms to their eventual coalescence into the Catawba of the 1700s...

... this process at the local level. The featured tribes include the Pamunkey Tribe of Virginia, the Catawba Nation of South Carolina, the Mississippi Band of Choctaws, the Eastern Band of Cherokees Indians, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Miccosukee Tribe of Florida from removal to the present. Adams...

.... 1989 The Indians' New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from European Contact through the Era of Removal . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press . 1999 Into the American Woods . New York : Norton . Meskell Lynn 2001 Archaeologies of Identity . In Archaeological...

..., Cahokia, and Coosa; while chapter 3 traces postcontact changes to coalescent societies like the Apalachees, Westos, Natchez, and the Creek Confederacy. Chapter 4 details the transformation of petit nations into larger societies like Creeks, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, and Catawbas in the eighteenth...

... and South Carolinians, and in southeastern ethnohis- tory the Tuscarora remain in the shadows of the Cherokees, Creeks, and even the Catawbas. La Vere aims for a broad audience and provides a narrative organized around biographical sketches. He writes in a compelling way and human- izes a story...

... of the seventeenth century. Following their movements from the Ohio River to the Savannah, Warren expertly traces Shawnees’ participation in the fur and slave trades, their relationships with the Iroquois, Catawbas, Delawares, Susquehannocks, and Penns, and the impact of events such as Bacon’s Rebellion...

... of attacks by the Carolinians and their Catawba allies. The Shawnees also had friendly relations with the Tuscaroras, and in June 1710 Tuscarora, Shawnee, and Iroquois emissaries attended a treaty at Conestoga, Pennsylvania.33 The Shawnees had been in close contact with Indians...

... in the colonial northeast pioneered the study of a bal- anced frontier where cultures intersected in space and influenced each other’s behavior. Likewise, James Merrell’s The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors from...

... that smallpox, measles, and other diseases were spreading in Georgia and Carolina and had hit the Catawbas. Cherokee religious leaders may have obtained some of this information, thus encouraging them to predict harmful conse- quences for their people should they travel much beyond their homelands...

... stratified native societies like the Catawbas. Robin Beck, for example, identifies Westo attacks as a probable cause of the dissolution of chiefdoms in the upper Catawba River valley, whose peoples gravitated downstream where they merged with the lower Catawba valley’s indigenous population, which...

... stratified native societies like the Catawbas. Robin Beck, for example, identifies Westo attacks as a probable cause of the dissolution of chiefdoms in the upper Catawba River valley, whose peoples gravitated downstream where they merged with the lower Catawba valley’s indigenous population, which...

... stratified native societies like the Catawbas. Robin Beck, for example, identifies Westo attacks as a probable cause of the dissolution of chiefdoms in the upper Catawba River valley, whose peoples gravitated downstream where they merged with the lower Catawba valley’s indigenous population, which...

... presentation of archaeological evidence, which allows for the mapping of population move- ments that resulted in the coalescence of new, less stratified native societies like the Catawbas. Robin Beck, for example, identifies Westo attacks as a probable cause of the dissolution of chiefdoms in the upper...

... stratified native societies like the Catawbas. Robin Beck, for example, identifies Westo attacks as a probable cause of the dissolution of chiefdoms in the upper Catawba River valley, whose peoples gravitated downstream where they merged with the lower Catawba valley’s indigenous population, which...