Cowboys and Indians: Creek and Seminole stock raising, 1700-1900.
Part of a special issue on farming and ranching in Native American reservations. Focusing mainly on the Creek and Seminole Indians, the writer challenges the traditional view that stock raising only became significant among Southeastern Indians later in the 19th century, with the establishment of l...
| Publicado en: | American Indian Culture & Research Journal Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 79 - 100 |
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UCLA American Indian Studies Center
1998
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| Sumario: | Part of a special issue on farming and ranching in Native American reservations. Focusing mainly on the Creek and Seminole Indians, the writer challenges the traditional view that stock raising only became significant among Southeastern Indians later in the 19th century, with the establishment of large-scale commercial cattle-raising operations by some “mixed-bloods.” He contends that stock raising had greater social and economic significance from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, when livestock raising was first adopted. He argues that livestock raising played simultaneous parts in maintaining older sociopolitical patterns among the Southeastern Indians and in introducing change through class formation. He concludes that differences in patterns of social change among the Creek and Seminole Indians were partially connected to differences in the ways in which livestock raising was integrated into their economies and societies. |
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