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Title
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The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era
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Date
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2019
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Bibliographic Citation
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Cobb, Charles R. 2019. The Archaeology of Southeastern Native American Landscapes of the Colonial Era. The American Experience in Archaeological Perspective. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
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• Examining what happens “to” Native peoples versus what happens “with” Native peoples guides the majority of the book.
• Cobb (2019:113-114) Similarities between Cherokee and Choctaw in terms of geographic situating and coalescence, but the Cherokee are “better known” from the archaeological record so they remain the focus.
• For the tribes forcibly removed from the Southeast, they maintain historical association and continuity through place names.
• Cobb (2019:174) provides the description from an 1822 meal and visit between a missionary and the Choctaw chief Moshulitubbee. The description is relatively vague, but Cobb posits questions that we should be asking, is the service of a relatively “traditional” Euro-American meal in a same setting with little in the way of “Choctaw” because the guest was being made to feel comfortable, because this separated the lifestyle of the chief from the village, would it have been the same experience at a non-chiefly Choctaw’s home? The one Choctaw dish, tomfullah, served a purpose?