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Native South
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ISSN (Print) 1943-2569 - ISSN (Online) 2152-4025
Published by U of Nebraska

[32 journals]

Brer Rabbit's Many-Colored Coattails: Disrupting Settler Colonial Fictions
in Joel Chandler Harris's Uncle Remus Series
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  Abstract: It has been suspected even by Professor J.W. Powell, of the Smithsonian Institution, that the Southern negroes obtained their myths and legends from the Indians, but it is impossible to adduce a scintilla of evidence in support of such a theory that cannot be used in support of just the opposite theory—namely: that the Indians borrowed their stories from the negroes.This curious claim appears in Joel Chandler Harris's introduction to Nights with Uncle Remus (1882), the second book in his series of collected "Negro"/slave stories.1 The significance of this particular passage is Harris's attempt to dissuade his readers of the validity of scholars' claims that "Indians," or Native Americans, influenced the stories ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-10T00:00:00-05:00
"A Little Indian There": Henry Louis Gates, DNA, and the Immutability of
Lumbee Identity
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  Abstract: On Tuesday, October 15, 2019, at 3:30 p.m., I sat waiting in an auditorium on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The university had chosen Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr., an Emmy Award—winning filmmaker, literary scholar, journalist, cultural critic, and institution builder, to deliver a lecture as a part of the Chancellor's Speakers Series. The room was packed to capacity. Gates spoke for an hour about his childhood, the television miniseries Roots, and his work in the academy, but he focused particularly on his participation in the critically acclaimed PBS series Finding Your Roots. This series explores the genealogies and racial roots of celebrities via DNA testing; celebrity guests have ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-10T00:00:00-05:00
Metawney of Coweta: Creek (Muscogee) Women and Their Eighteenth-Century
World
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  Abstract: Buried away in the archives of the Georgia Historical Society is a darkened photocopy of the Ogeechee River Basin Map, identified as Deed B3–95 and dated 1772. On the back of the map are two penciled inscriptions: (1) "from the Creek Nation to Matawany, Daughter of [the] Great Warrior of Cowetane, called Tustowagey"; and (2) "[this] Tract between the Great and Little Ogeechee Rivers . . . Matawany conveys to her children, Judith, Georgia, and John." This curious source tells us little beyond the fact that leaders of the Creek (Muscogee) Nation conveyed nearly 88,000 acres of land to a Creek woman in trust for her three children, born of a relationship with a European man. The map is quite puzzling on its ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-10T00:00:00-05:00
Creoles, Indians, and Raquette in Louisiana
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  Abstract: One Sunday in August 1858, more than three thousand eager spectators gathered at a common ground in one of the poorer parts of New Orleans to see 166 elite Afro-Creole athletes clash in a game of raquette, a two-stick version of the popular Native American stick-and-ball game that evolved into the modern sport of lacrosse. Booths of black female concessionaires stretched along one side of the field while spectators of all colors and classes crowded in close to see the action—a hazardous decision considering the inherent roughness of the sport. From the moment the ball was thrown into the air to commence the melee, the match became a heedless, violent crash of sticks and limbs. Shirtless and barefooted, men fought ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-10T00:00:00-05:00
Negotiating the Royal Proclamation: Shared Legalities and the Ordering of
Authority in the Southeastern Borderlands, 1763–1768
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  Abstract: In early January of 1764 seven young Lower Creek men murdered fourteen British American settlers near the Savannah River and Long Canes region in South Carolina. John Stuart, the southern superintendent of Indian Affairs, told Creek headmen that the murders were an insult to Creek authority and a violation of the rules of proper justice established by the Treaty of Augusta in late 1763. Both the Upper and Lower Creeks claimed that the Cherokees had incited the young "Runagadoes" to commit the murders, yet Stuart remained convinced that the leader of the Upper Creek "French party," Mortar (Yahatatastonake), had instigated the murders in contempt of the growing influence of the "English party" over the nation ... Read More
  PubDate: 2022-12-10T00:00:00-05:00