Winter ‘08
Southern Cultures volume 14, number 4: FIRST PEOPLES
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Front Porch
by Harry L. Watson
"The South’s first people were neither black nor white, and they have never disappeared."
Essays
"The Obituary of Nations"
Ethnic Cleansing, Memory, and the Origins of the Old South
by James Taylor Carson
"The wilderness settlers thought they were entering was in fact a landscape created and managed by the First Peoples."
Mississippi Choctaws and Racial Politics
by Katherine M. B. Osburn
"In December 1912, Mississippi representative Pat Harrison stood before Congress and delivered an impassioned speech on behalf of the Choctaw Indians living in his district. 'Mr. Chairman,' Harrison announced, 'the Choctaw Indians always stood with the white men of the South.'"
"When Carolina Indians Went on the Warpath"
The Media, the Klan, and the Lumbees of North Carolina
by Christopher Arris Oakley
"On a frigid Saturday night in January 1958, Grand Dragon James ‘Catfish’ Cole and fifty other members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered for a rally in a cornfield near Hayes Pond just outside of Maxton, a small town located in Robeson County in southeastern North Carolina. But before the rally even began, several hundred Lumbees chased the Klansmen from the frozen cornfield."
Remembering Cherokee Removal in Civil Rights–Era Georgia
by Andrew Denson
"Sanctifying a historic site almost always involves an effort to derive some kind of clear moral message from the events that have taken place there. At New Echota in the early 1960s, that interpretive effort focused on the story of Cherokee Removal, and the moral message was atonement."
Photo Essay
Glimpses of a Nearby Nation
The Making of Catawba Pottery with Georgia Harris and Edith Harris Brown
by Lorene B. Harris
with photographs by Thomas J. Blumer
and with an introduction by Brett H. Riggs
"Like their ancestors for thousands of years, Catawba potters of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries have continued to adapt their material traditions to ever-changing modern contexts. In the process, they create remarkably contemporary works of visual and tactile art."
Features
Mason-Dixon Lines The Indian Sports Mascot Meets Noble Savage and
Noble Savage Confronts Indian Mascot
two poems by LeAnne Howe
"But here we are. You with a bow and arrow. Me in a headdress."
Beyond Grits and Gravy Mother Corn and the Dixie Pig
Native Food in the Native South
by Rayna Green
"They all know, out there in Indian Country, that the loss of traditional diet and the cultural skills needed to maintain it has killed more Indians than Andy Jackson."
Upbeat Down South "Tiger Tiger": Miccosukee Rock 'n' Roll
by Patsy West
with Lee Tiger’s "The Life of the Tiger Brothers"
"During this time we played with Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Procol Harum, Cream, and Jefferson Airplane, and we even backed Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry."
South Polls When Heritage Is Hip
by Larry J. Griffin
"Not all 'cool' identities are equally cool. If the socially constructed identity of American Indian is cool, for most people it is cooler to have Indian ancestry than to be Indian."
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