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**A comprehensive collection of the most important sources on the late historic Creek Indians and their environment.** In 1795 Benjamin Hawkins, a former U.S. senator and advisor to George Washington, was appointed U.S. Indian agent and superintendent of all the tribes south of the Ohio River. Unlike most other agents, he lived among the Creek Indians for his entire tenure, from 1796 to 1816. Journeying forth from his home on the Flint River in Georgia, he served southeastern Indians as government intermediary during one of the longest eras of peace in the historic period. Hawkins's journals provide detailed information about European-Indian relations in the 18th-century frontier of the South. His descriptions of the natural and cultural environment are considered among the best sources for the ethnohistory of the Choctaw, Cherokee, Chickasaw, and, especially, the Creek Indians and the natural history of their territory. Two previously published bodies of work by Benjamin Hawkins are included here-__A Sketch of the Creek Country in the Years 1798 and 1799__ and __The Letters of Benjamin Hawkins 1796-1806__. A third body of work that has never been published, "A Viatory or Journal o

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Author

Benjamin Hawkins, Howard Thomas Foster II

Publisher

University of Alabama Press

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780817383718

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography