Influences of Enslaved and Free Africans on Southeastern Indian Log Cabins. In Native American Log Cabins in the Southeast

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Influences of Enslaved and Free Africans on Southeastern Indian Log Cabins. In Native American Log Cabins in the Southeast

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Ashley A. Dumas See all items with this value

Date

2019

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Bibliographic Citation

Dumas, Ashley A. 2019. Influences of Enslaved and Free Africans on Southeastern Indian Log Cabins. In Native American Log Cabins in the Southeast, ed. G. A. Waselkov, pp. 165-184. University Press of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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• One of the few archaeological considerations of not just the European/white American interactions and thus cultural knowledge exchanges with Native Americans in the Southeast, but African Americans.
• The architectural and archaeological record focuses on the Black Belt, which was ceded to the US by the Choctaw under the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.
• Rightly asserts that “proximity to wealthy white traders alone does not explain this dramatic shift in domestic housing” in relation to the changes in the architecture of the various ethnic groups (Dumas 2019:174) but perhaps does not consider the presence of log cabin (i.e., notched log) construction traditions pre-European contact, although the texts focuses primarily on Muscogee and Cherokee records.
• No specific mentions of Choctaw log cabins or structural elements, but worthy of further examination considering the history presented.

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Alabama See all items with this value

Black Belt See all items with this value

African American See all items with this value

Chahta (Choctaw) See all items with this value

Cherokee See all items with this value

Muscogee (Creek) See all items with this value

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Postcontact See all items with this value